For the purposes stated in § 156.002, this chapter is intended to meet certain standards and objectives by:
(A) Dividing the entire city into districts and restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land, whether for residential, business or other specified uses.
(B) Avoiding or lessening congestion in the public streets by providing for the off-street parking and loading of motor vehicles, and by providing for street improvements to accommodate additional traffic generated by new development or redevelopment.
(C) Preventing the overcrowding of land through regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected as related to land area.
(D) Establishing, regulating and limiting the building or yard lines on or along streets, easements, or property lines.
(E) Regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and regulating the area of open spaces surrounding such buildings.
(F) Establishing standards to which buildings or structures shall conform.
(G) Regulating uses, buildings, or structures in conformity with the character of the residential or business districts.
(H) Preventing additions to or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations herein imposed.
(I) Providing for the gradual elimination of those uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located, including, but not necessarily limited to:
(1) Elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lots when the uses to which they are devoted are discontinued or when a reasonable time of use after the passage of this chapter or any amendment thereto shall have elapsed.
(2) Elimination of uses to which such buildings and structures are devoted, if they are adaptable for permitted uses.
(3) Elimination of such buildings and structures when they are destroyed or damaged in a major part as hereinafter provided, or when they have reached the age fixed as a normal useful life of such buildings or structures.
(J) Defining and limiting the powers and duties of the administrative officers and official bodies as hereinafter provided.
(K) Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this chapter, or of any amendment thereto.
(Ord. 07-13, passed 10-9-07)