This Zoning Ordinance has been enacted in accordance with a comprehensive plan and the provisions of Ohio R.C. Chapters 711 and 713 for the general purpose of protecting the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, or general welfare. This Zoning Ordinance has the more specific purpose for:
(a) Dividing the City into zones and districts, encouraging, regulating, and restricting therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of structures and land;
(b) Promoting the orderly development of residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, and public areas;
(c) Providing for adequate light, air and convenience of access to property by regulating the use of land and buildings and the bulk of structures in relationship to surrounding properties;
(d) Limiting congestion in the public rights of way;
(e) Providing the compatibility of different land uses and the most appropriate use of land;
(f) Providing for the administration of this Ordinance, defining the powers and duties of the administrative officers of the City as provided hereafter, and prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions in this Ordinance or any amendment thereto; and
(g) The repeal thereof of Ordinance Numbers 980 and 784 of the City of Rossford and any and all other previously enacted Zoning Ordinances of the City of Rossford.
(Ord. 2008-06. Passed 4-14-08.)