(A) This UDO is adopted to:
1. Promote the public health, safety, comfort, and general welfare;
2. Secure adequate light, pure air, and safety from fire and other dangers;
3. Conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the Village;
4. Lesson or avoid congestion in the public streets;
5. Lessen or avoid hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation of runoff of storm or flood waters;
6. Ensure and facilitate the preservation of sites, areas, and structures of historical, architectural, and aesthetic importance; and
7. Enhance and preserve aesthetic values throughout the Village.
(B) To achieve these purposes, this UDO sets forth regulations and standards:
1. To regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings erected after the date of adoption of this UDO;
2. To establish, regulate, and limit the building or setback lines on or along any street, traffic way, drive, parkway, storm or flood water runoff channel or basin or other property line;
3. To regulate and limit the intensity of the use of lot areas, and to regulate and determine the area of open spaces, within and surrounding buildings;
4. To classify, regulate, and restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specified industrial, business, residential, and other uses;
5. To divide the entire Village into districts as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this UDO;
6. To fix standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;
7. To prohibit uses, buildings, and/or structures that are incompatible with the character of such districts;
8. To prevent additions to, alterations of, or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed under this UDO;
9. To provide for the gradual elimination of uses, buildings, and/or structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located;
10. To define and limit the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided in this UDO; and
11. To prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this UDO, or any amendments to this UDO. (Ord. 23-0-05, 1-23-2023)