(A) The purpose of this Zoning Code and the intent of the legislative authority in its adoption is to promote and protect the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, and general welfare in the City, by dividing the municipality into districts (zones) of such number and dimension as to achieve a coordinated, beneficial and meaningful development of land uses by the following:
(1) Regulating the use of buildings, other structures and land for residential, business, and other uses;
(2) Regulating the area and dimension of lots, and yards;
(3) Regulating and restricting the location, bulk, height, design and land coverage of buildings;
(4) Regulating the density of land occupancy; and
(5) Providing regulations and procedures for the administration, amendment and enforcement thereof.
(B) In addition, this Zoning Code is intended to achieve, among others, the following objectives:
(1) To protect the character, integrity and value of the residential, business, institutional, and recreational areas and to assure their orderly and beneficial development;
(2) To provide adequate open space and prevent overcrowding of the land and an excessive concentration of the population;
(3) To protect commercial opportunity, enhance the viability of the commercial establishment, and preserve a balance of business services to facilitate the availability of retail and professional services sufficient to meet the needs of the residential population of the City;
(4) To regulate the location of buildings and intensity of uses in relation to streets and traffic flow to assure the least interference with traffic movement thereby improving and promoting the public safety;
(5) To facilitate adequate provisions for public utilities and facilities such as recreation, school, sewerage, water, transportation and other public requirements;
(6) To promote the compatibility of adjacent uses;
(7) To guide the future development of the City in a manner that brings about the gradual conformity of land and building uses in accordance with comprehensive plans adopted by the City; and
(8) To accomplish the specific intentions and goals set forth hereinafter in this Zoning Code.
(Ord. 5-2005, passed 3-23-05)