A. The zoning resolution of this county is adopted with the purpose of promoting and protecting the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the people. The fulfillment of this purpose is to be accomplished by seeking:
1. To encourage and facilitate orderly, efficient, and appropriate growth and development;
2. To protect agricultural, residential, business, commercial, and industrial areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by other inappropriate uses;
3. To avoid the inappropriate development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing, or erosion, and reduction of flood damage;
4. To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between agricultural, residential, business, commercial, and manufacturing uses for the mutual benefit of all;
5. To protect those areas which are not and/or cannot be served by central sewer systems from growth intensities which could be hazardous to the public health;
6. To establish population densities to prevent or reduce congestion and to secure economy in the cost of providing water supply and sewage facilities, streets and highways, fire and police protection, schools, parks and recreation facilities, and other governmental services; and
7. To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the county.
B. The standards and requirements contained in this code and the district mapping reflected on the County Zoning Map are intended to further the implementation of the objectives and policies of this county as well as protect all desirable existing structures and uses.
(Res. 669-94-72, § 201, effective 4-5-1995; Res. 80-13-159, effective 7-5-2013)