This chapter to the county zoning ordinance is adopted for the following purposes, which does not represent a prioritization of purposes:
(A) To promote and to protect the public health, safety, welfare, and morals of the people;
(B) To zone all properties in such a manner as to reflect their highest and best use to the owner and the community and to conserve and enhance their value;
(C) To check existing congestion and to prevent future congestion by limiting the development of land to a degree consistent with the capacity to furnish adequate public services;
(D) To prevent overcrowding of land with buildings and thereby ensure maximum living and working conditions and prevent blight and slums;
(E) To protect agricultural, residential, business, and manufacturing areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by other inappropriate uses;
(F) To fix reasonable zoning standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;
(G) To prevent additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures that would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed hereinafter;
(H) To ensure high standards of light, air, and open spaces in areas where people live and work;
(I) To relieve street congestion through adequate requirements for off-street parking and loading facilities;
(J) To foster a rational pattern of relationships between agricultural, residential, business, and manufacturing uses for the mutual benefit of all;
(K) To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses;
(L) To provide protection against fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards;
(M) To define the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies, as provided hereinafter; and
(N) To prescribe penalties for the violations of the provisions of this chapter, or of any amendment thereto.
(Ord. O-95-2-12, passed 2-9-2012) Penalty, see § 155.999