5-2-1: PURPOSE AND INTENT:

   A.   This Title is adopted for the purpose of:

      1.   Promoting the public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience and general welfare;

      2.   Securing adequate natural light, pure air and safety from fire and other dangers;

      3.   Lessening or avoiding the hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation or runoff of storm or flood waters;

      4.   Lessening or avoiding congestion in the public streets and highways;

      5.   Conserving the value of land and buildings throughout the Village; and

      6.   Preserving and enhancing aesthetic values throughout the Village.

   B.   To these ends this Title is intended to establish and accomplish certain standards and objectives by:

      1.   Dividing the entire Village into districts and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of buildings, structures and land, whether for agriculture, residence, business, manufacturing or other specified uses;

      2.   Avoiding or lessening congestion in the public streets by adequate requirements for off-street parking and loading facilities;

      3.   Preventing the overcrowding of land by regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected;

      4.   Establishing, regulating and limiting the building or setback lines along streets, alleys and property lines;

      5.   Regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and regulating and determining the area of open spaces surrounding buildings;

      6.   Establishing standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform;

      7.   Permitting in each zoning district only those uses, buildings and structures that are compatible with the character of each district;

      8.   Preventing additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures, in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations imposed under this Title;

      9.   Providing controls governing the continuation of those existing uses, buildings and structures, which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located;

      10.   Providing for the gradual elimination of structures and uses which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located;

      11.   Defining the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided in this Title; and

      12.   Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Title, or of any amendment thereto. (Ord., 5-15-1974)