This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comforts and general welfare of the people;
(B) To restrict and regulate therein the location, erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of building, structures and land for residential, business and manufacturing and other specified uses;
(C) To protect the character and the stability of the residential, business and manufacturing areas within this chapter’s geographic jurisdiction, and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;
(D) To provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access to property;
(E) To regulate the intensity of use of lot areas and to determine the area of open spaces surrounding buildings necessary to provide adequate light and air to protect the public health;
(F) To establish building lines and the location of buildings designed for residential, business, manufacturing or other uses within such areas;
(G) To fix reasonable standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;
(H) To prohibit uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of development or intended uses within specified zoning districts;
(I) To prevent additions or alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder:
(1) To protect against fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort and general welfare;
(2) To prevent the overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures, so far as is possible and appropriate in each district, by regulating the use and bulk of buildings in relation to the land surrounding them;
(3) To conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the geographic jurisdiction of this chapter;
(4) To provide for the elimination of nonconforming use of land, buildings and structures which are adversely affecting the character and value of desirable development in each district; and
(5) And to define and limit the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided herein.
(Ord. passed - -)