This zoning code is enacted for the purposes of:
A. Promoting the health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience, prosperity, order, and general welfare;
B. Reducing the congestion of public streets;
C. Reducing the risk from fire and other dangers;
D. Preventing the overcrowding of land, and the undue concentration of population;
E. Providing adequate light and air, transportation, water, sewerage, parks, and other public improvements and preventing undue encroachment thereon;
F. Conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land;
G. Encouraging the appropriate use of agricultural, residential, office, commercial, and industrial growth of the community; and
H. Promoting the development of the community in accordance with the Okmulgee comprehensive plan. (Ord. 1953, 2010)