This zoning ordinance is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To promote public health, safety, convenience, comfort and general welfare.
(B) To secure adequate light, air, open space and safety from fire and other dangers.
(C) To conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the Municipality.
(D) To lessen or avoid congestion in public streets, including adequate space and facilities that serve pedestrians, bicyclists and transit riders as guided by Complete Streets principles.
(E) To ensure and facilitate the preservation of sites, areas and structures of historical, architectural and aesthetic importance.
(F) To regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected.
(G) To establish, regulate and limit the building or setback lines on, or along, any street, trafficway, drive, parkway, or storm or flood water runoff channel or basin.
(H) To regulate and limit the intensity of the use of lot areas, and to regulate and determine the area of open spaces, within and surrounding such buildings.
(I) To classify, regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries, and the location of buildings designed for specified commercial uses, residential uses and other uses.
(J) To divide the entire Municipality into districts of such number, shape, area, and of such different classes, according to use of land and buildings, height and bulk of buildings, intensity of the use of lot area, area of open spaces, or other classification, as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this zoning ordinance.
(K) To fix standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform.
(L) To prohibit uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of such districts.
(M) To define the powers and duties of administrative officers and bodies, as provided hereinafter.
(N) To prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this zoning ordinance, or any amendments thereto. (Ord. 2550, 12-19-2005; amd. Ord. 4040, 2-2-2023)