This Zoning Ordinance is adopted to promote and protect the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare by regulating and limiting the use of land areas and buildings and the erection, restoration and alteration of buildings and the use thereof for residential, business and industrial purposes; to regulate the area and dimensions of land, yards and open spaces so as to secure adequate light, air and safety from fire and other dangers; to lessen or avoid congestion in the public streets; to regulate and restrict the bulk, height, design, percent of lot occupancy and the location of buildings; to protect the character of the agricultural, residential, business, industrial, institutional and public areas and to assure their orderly and beneficial development; to provide for the orderly growth and development of lands, and for the purpose of dividing the Municipality into various districts.