A. Purpose: This Zoning Title is adopted for the purpose of improving 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 the following objectives:
1. To lessen congestion on the public streets.
2. To avoid undue concentration of population.
3. To prevent the overcrowding of land, thereby insuring proper living and working conditions and preventing the development of blight and slums.
4. To establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air and open spaces.
5. To facilitate the provision of adequate public services such as transportation, water, sewerage, open space and parks.
6. To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the Village.
7. To protect all areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to insure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by inappropriate uses within the parameters of the standards and requirements of this Title.
8. To avoid the inappropriate development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing or erosion, and reduction of flood damage.
9. To fix reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall conform.
10. To prevent such additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed herein.
11. To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, business and industrial uses for the mutual benefit of all.
12. To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses.
13. To define the powers and duties of the administrative and enforcement officers and bodies.
14. To prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Title or of any subsequent amendments hereto.
B. Intent: The standards and requirements contained in this Title and the district mapping reflected on the Zoning District Map are intended to implement all elements of the Comprehensive Plan 1 , including the land use component, and the planning policies of the Village. (Ord. 93-695, 6-15-93)
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| 1 | 1. See Title 9, Chapter 1 of this Code. |