This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, and general welfare of the people of the village;
(B) To divide the village into zones or districts restricting and regulating therein the location, erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land for residence, business, manufacturing, and other specified uses;
(C) To protect the character and the stability of the residential, business, and manufacturing areas within the village and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;
(D) To provide adequate light, solar benefit, privacy, and convenience of access to property;
(E) To regulate the intensity of use of lot areas, and to determine the area of open spaces surrounding buildings necessary to provide adequate light, solar benefit, air, and to protect the public health;
(F) To establish building lines and the location of buildings designed for residential, business, manufacturing, or other uses within those areas;
(G) To fix reasonable standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;
(H) To prohibit uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the character of development or intended uses within specified zoning districts;
(I) To prevent additions to, or alteration or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder;
(J) To limit congestion in the public streets and protect the public health, safety, convenience, and general welfare by providing for the off-street parking of motor vehicles and the loading and unloading of commercial vehicles;
(K) To protect against fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards, in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort, and general welfare;
(L) To prevent the overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures, so far as is possible and appropriate in each district, by regulating the use and bulk of buildings in relation to the land surrounding them;
(M) To conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the village;
(N) To provide for the gradual elimination of non-conforming uses of land, buildings, and structures which are adversely affecting the character and value of desirable development in each district;
(O) To define and limit the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided herein;
(P) To lessen or avoid the hazard to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation or runoff of storm or flood waters;
(Q) To facilitate and insure the preservation of sites, areas, and structures of historical, architectural and aesthetic importance; and
(R) To prescribe penalties for the violation of, and methods for the administration and enforcement of, the provisions of this Ordinance or any amendment thereto.