This Planning and Zoning Code is adopted to promote and protect the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and/or general welfare of the inhabitants of the City by regulating the use of buildings, other structures and land for residential, business, service, industrial, institutional, public or other uses; by relating the area and dimensions of lots, yards and other open spaces; by regulating and restricting the location, bulk, height, design and land coverage of buildings; by regulating and limiting the density of population, and for the aforesaid purposes to establish districts of such classification, number and dimensions as may be considered best to implement comprehensive planning; to regulate the subdividing and development of land; and to provide regulations and procedures for the administration, interpretation, amendment and enforcement of this Planning and Zoning Code.
(Ord. 1997-117. Passed 9-16-97.)