The zoning regulations and standards herein adopted and established have been made for the purpose of:
A. Securing adequate light, pure air and safety from fire and other dangers;
B. Conserving the value of land, buildings and structures throughout the village;
C. Lessening and avoiding congestion in the public streets;
D. Lessening and avoiding hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation or runoff of stormwater or floodwater;
E. Promoting the public health, safety, comfort, morals and general welfare;
F. Regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings and structures hereafter to be erected;
G. Establishing, regulating and limiting the building or setback lines on or along any street, trafficway, drive, parkway or stormwater or floodwater runoff channel or basin;
H. Regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and regulating and determining the area of open spaces within and surrounding buildings and structures;
I. Classifying, regulating, and restricting the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings, structures, and land designed for specified industrial, commercial, residential and other uses;
J. Dividing the entire village into districts of such number, shape, area and such different classes according to the use of land, buildings and structures, intensity of the use of lot area, areas of open space and other classifications as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this title;
K. Fixing regulations and standards to which buildings, structures, or uses therein shall conform;
L. Prohibiting uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the character of such districts; and
M. Preventing additions to the alteration or remodeling of existing buildings, structures or uses in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed under this title. (Ord. 740, 4-7-1970; amd. 2016 Code)