(a) This Zoning Code is enacted for the general purpose of promoting the public health, safety, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare for the improvement and development of the City and is established to regulate the: use of buildings, structures, lots and lands; location, type, height, bulk, number of stories, and size of buildings and structures; percentage of land area occupancy; setback building lines, size of yards and other open spaces; and to create use districts for such purposes.
(b) Further, more specific purposes are to:
(1) Protect the character and the values of the residential, business, industrial and recreational areas and to assure their orderly and beneficial development;
(2) Provide adequate open spaces for light and air, to prevent overcrowding of the land, excessive concentration of the population, and, on the other hand, excessive and wasteful scattering of the population;
(3) Manage congestion on the streets, to improve the public safety by locating buildings and uses adjacent to streets in such a manner that they will cause the least interference with, and be damaged least by, traffic movements;
(4) Facilitate adequate provisions for public utilities and facilities such as recreation, school, sewerage, water, transportation and other public requirements; and
(5) Encourage the most appropriate uses of the land and guide the future development of the City, all in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan.
(Ord. 2007-222. Passed 1-10-08.)