(A) This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
(1) To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, and the general welfare of the people.
(2) To divide the entire city into districts, restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land for residence, business, manufacturing, and other specified uses.
(3) To protect the character and maintain the stability of residential, business, farming, and manufacturing areas within the city, and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas.
(4) To secure adequate light, air, privacy, and convenience of access to property.
(5) To regulate the intensity of use of lot areas, and to determine the area of open spaces surrounding buildings necessary to provide adequate light and air and protect the public health.
(6) To establish building lines and setbacks, and the location of buildings designed for residential, business, farming, manufacturing, or other uses within such lines and setbacks.
(7) To fix reasonable standards to which buildings or structures shall conform.
(8) To prohibit uses, buildings, or structures which are incompatible with the character or development, or the permitted uses, within specified districts.
(9) To prevent additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings and structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder.
(10) To limit congestion in the public streets by making adequate provision for off-street parking and off-street loading facilities.
(11) To provide protection against fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards, in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort, and the general welfare.
(12) To prevent the overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures, so far as it is possible and appropriate in each district, by regulating the use and bulk of buildings in relation to the land surrounding them.
(13) To conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the city.
(14) To define and limit the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as herein provided.
(15) To prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this chapter and any amendments hereto.
(B) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to be a consent, license, or permit to use any property, to locate, construct, or maintain any building, structure, or facility, or to carry on any trade, industry, occupation, or activity.
(C) The provisions of this chapter are cumulative and additional limitations upon all other laws and ordinances heretofore or hereafter enacted, governing any subject matter herein.
('69 Code, App. A, § 2)