(A) The purpose of this Code is to protect the public health, safety, comfort, morals and the general welfare of the people of the city. These general objectives include, among others, the following:
(1) To protect the character and stability of residential, industrial and commercial areas within the city;
(2) To correct and prevent structure conditions which adversely affect or are likely to adversely affect the life, safety, general welfare and health, including the physical, mental and social well- being of persons occupying structures within North St. Paul;
(3) To provide minimum standards for light and ventilation, necessary to health and safety;
(4) To prevent the overcrowding of dwellings by providing minimum space standards per occupant for each dwelling unit;
(5) To provide minimum standards for the maintenance of existing buildings and to thus prohibit slums and blight.
(B) With respect to rental disputes, and except as otherwise specifically provided by the terms of this chapter, it is not the intention of the Council to intrude upon the fair and accepted contractual relationship between tenant and landlord. The Council does not intend to intervene as an advocate of either party, nor to act as an arbiter, nor to be receptive to complaints from tenant or landlord which are not specifically and clearly relevant to the provisions of this chapter. In the absence of such relevancy with regard to rental disputes, it is intended that the contracting parties exercise such legal sanctions as are available to them without the intervention of city government.
(`89 Code, § 27.010)