(a) The purpose of this Planning and 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 the general welfare of the Village and its residents by regulating the use of buildings, other structures and land for residences, public facilities, institutions, business and services; by regulating and restricting the bulk, height, design, percent of lot occupancy and location of buildings; by regulating and limiting population density; and, for the aforesaid purposes, to design districts of such number and dimensions to carry out the objectives of the plans of the Village and to provide procedures for the administration and amendment of this Planning and Zoning Code.
(b) This Planning and Zoning Code is intended to achieve, among others, the following objectives:
(1) To protect the character and values of residential, institutional and public uses, business and commercial uses and to insure their orderly and beneficial development.
(2) To provide adequate open spaces for light, air and outdoor uses, and to prevent excessive concentration of population.
(3) To regulate and control the location and spacing of buildings in relation to the site and to the surrounding property.
(4) To regulate the intensity of uses in relation to streets and to reduce the interference with traffic movements so as to improve public safety.
(5) To guide the future development of the Village so as to bring about the gradual conformity of land and building uses in accordance with the objectives of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan of the Village.
(6) To accomplish the specific intents and goals set forth in the introduction to the respective Chapters.
(7) Encourage compatibility between different land uses and protect the scale and character of existing development from the encroachment of incompatible uses.
(8) Pursue and encourage the preservation and conservation of open space in the Village by promoting development in a manner planned to harmonize with natural surroundings.
(9) To preserve and strengthen the reasonable balance of commercial activities within the Village, so long as they are consistent with the Village's residential character and the foregoing objectives, in order to serve the convenience of the inhabitants of the Village.
(Ord. 2012-21. Passed 7-11-12.)