§ 155.004 INTENT AND PURPOSE.
   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