The Industrial Districts regulated in this article are designed to promote and protect the public health, safety and general welfare. These general goals include, among others, the following specific purposes:
(a) To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet the needs of the City's and metropolitan area's future economy for all types of manufacturing and related activities with due allowance for the need for a choice of sites.
(b) To provide, insofar as is possible, that such space will be available for use for manufacturing and related activities, and to protect residences by separating them from manufacturing activities and by prohibiting the uses of such space for new residential development.
(c) To encourage manufacturing development which is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, radiation and other hazards, and from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust and other particulate matter, odorous matter, heat, humidity, glare and other objectionable influences in those limited areas which are appropriate therefor.
(d) To protect manufacturing and related development from congestion, insofar as is possible and appropriate in each area by limiting the bulk of buildings in relation to the land around them and to one another and by providing space off public streets for parking and loading facilities associated with such activities.
(e) To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development in accordance with a well-considered plan, to promote stability of manufacturing and related development, to strengthen the economic base of the City, to protect the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, to conserve the value of land and buildings and to protect the City's tax revenues.
(1970 Code Sec. 32-40)