This title is adopted for the following purposes:
To ensure that adequate light, pure air, and safety from fire and other dangers may be secured;
To ensure that the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the municipality may be conserved;
To ensure that congestion in the public streets may be lessened or avoided;
To ensure that the hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation of runoff of storm or flood waters may be lessened or avoided;
To promote the public health, safety, comfort, morals, and welfare;
To ensure and facilitate the preservation of sites, areas, and structures of historical, architectural, and aesthetic importance;
To regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter to be erected;
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;
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;
To classify, regulate, and restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specified industrial, business, residential and other uses;
To divide the entire municipality into districts of such number, shape, area, and of such different classes (according to use of land and building, height, and bulk of buildings, intensity of the use of lot area, area of open spaces, or other classification) as is deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this section;
To fix standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform;
To prohibit uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the character of such districts;
To prevent additions to and alteration or remodeling of existing buildings, or structures, in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed under this title;
To classify, regulate, and restrict the use of property on the basis of family relationship as is hereinafter defined;
To provide for the gradual elimination of uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are made or located, including without being limited thereto provisions: 1) for the elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lot areas where the existing rights of the persons in possession thereof are terminated or when the uses to which they are devoted are discontinued; 2) for the elimination of uses to which such buildings and structures are devoted if they are adaptable for permitted uses; 3) for the elimination of such buildings and structures when they are destroyed or damaged in major part, or when they have reached the age fixed by the corporate authorities of the Municipality as the normal useful life of such buildings or structures; (Ord. 190, 3-19-73)
To protect adjacent, upstream and downstream private and public landowners from increases in flood heights and velocities and resulting increases in flood damages;
To minimize extraordinary direct and indirect costs to governmental units caused by developments within flood plains for roads, sewer and water, flood control works, flood relief and emergency services;
To reduce health and safety risks to the individual or his family or guests, prevent blighting, and prevent economic losses which detract from community well-being and the tax base;
To protect individuals from buying lands which are unsuited for intended purposes because of flood hazard;
To prevent water pollution, nuisances due to floating structures and debris, and increased sedimentation; (Ord. 216, 5-19-75)
To ensure that the Village continues to be primarily a single- family, residential low-density land use, Village community with limited commercial development;
To ensure that development within the Village is compatible with and protective of its wooded, river-influenced environment;
To encourage maximum voluntary citizen involvement and a minimum of government control. (Ord. 93-8-18, 8-17-93)