This title is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To promote and to protect the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare.
(B) To zone all properties in such a manner as to reflect their best use, 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 of the village to furnish adequate public services.
(D) To prevent overcrowding of land with buildings and thereby ensure maximum quality of living and working conditions, and prevent blight and slums.
(E) To protect residential, commercial and industrial 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 standards to which buildings or structures shall conform.
(G) To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures that would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed hereafter.
(H) To ensure high standards of light, air and open space 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 more rational pattern of relationships between residential, commercial and industrial uses for the mutual benefit of all.
(K) To provide protection against fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards, in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare.
(L) To define the powers and duties of administrative officers and bodies, as provided hereinafter.
(M) To prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this title or any amendments thereto. (Ord. 1650, 10-10-2007, eff. 10-15-2007)