1311.01 ADOPTED PURPOSE.
      (a)   BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that in order to:
      (1)    Classify, regulate and limit the height, area, bulk, and use of buildings hereafter to be erected,
      (2)    Regulate and determine the area of front, rear and side yards, courts, and other open spaces about such buildings,
      (3)    Regulate and determine the use and intensity of use of land and lot areas,
      (4)    Classify, regulate and restrict the location of buildings designed for specified uses,
      (5)    Regulate and control, or prohibit in certain areas, junk yards, salvage yards, used parts yards, dumps or automobile or appliance graveyards, or the maintenance and operation of second hand stores or outlets in residential areas,
      (6)    Classify and designate lands among industrial, commercial, residential and other uses and purposes,
      (7)    Divide the municipality into districts of such kind, character, number, shape and areas as may be deemed necessary, and
      (8)    Adopt a Zoning Map thereof, the zoning ordinance of the City of St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia presented to the City Council of St. Albans, and accepted by said Council on April 17th, 2023, a certified copy of which is presented herewith and the provisions of which are incorporated herein by reference as if set forth verbatim, be, and the same hereby is, adopted as Part 13, Chapter 3 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of St. Albans, to be known hereafter generally as the "2023 Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map".
         (Ord. 2023-02. Passed 4-17-23.)