The Zoning Ordinance of the City of Oxford, Ohio is adopted for the purposes of promoting and protecting the public health, safety, and general welfare of the people and to support the comfort and convenience of the Citizens of Oxford. The fulfillment of this purpose is to be accomplished by seeking:
(a) To encourage and facilitate orderly, efficient, and appropriate growth and development.
(b) To establish population densities to prevent or reduce congestion and to secure economy in the cost of providing water supply and sewerage systems, streets, and highways, fire and police protection, schools, parks and recreation facilities, and other governmental services.
(c) To zone all properties with a view to conserving the property value and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the City.
(d) To protect agricultural, residential, business commercial and industrial areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses, and to ensure that land allocated to a category of uses shall not be usurped by other inappropriate uses.
(e) To avoid inappropriate development of land and provide for adequate drainage, control of erosion, and reduction of flood damage.
(f) The standards and requirement contained in this Ordinance, and the district mapping reflected on the Oxford Zoning Map, are intended to further the implementation of the future planning objectives for the City as well as protect all desirable existing structures and uses.
(Ord. 2782. Passed 5-20-03.)