This Zoning Code is enacted to preserve and promote the public health, convenience, morals, safety, comfort, prosperity and general welfare and for the following more particularly specified purposes:
(a) To protect the character and stability of residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and recreational areas within the City and to promote the orderly development of such areas;
(b) To avoid undue concentration of population and to lessen congestion on the streets;
(c) To provide adequate open spaces for light and air and to prevent sparse and uncoordinated development;
(d) To facilitate the adequate but economical provision of public improvements;
(e) To regulate the location, height and bulk of buildings and the use of buildings and land within the City; and
(f) To guide and regulate future growth and development of the City for the benefit of its residents. (Ord. 66-103. Passed 12-19-66.)