This zoning chapter, adopted pursuant to the provisions of ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5 §§ 11-13-1 through 11-13-19 of the Illinois Municipal Code as amended from time to time, is intended to serve the following purposes:
(A) To promote the public health, safety, morals, comfort, and general welfare;
(B) To conserve the values of property throughout the village and to protect the character and stability of residential, business, and industrial areas, and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;
(C) To provide adequate light, air, privacy, and convenience of access to property;
(D) To lessen or avoid congestion in the public streets and highways;
(E) To lessen or avoid hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation or runoff of storm or flood waters;
(F) To regulate and restrict the location and use of buildings, structures, and land for trade, industry, residence, and other uses, and to regulate and restrict the intensity of such uses;
(G) To divide the entire village into districts of such number, shape, area, and of such different classes, according to the use of land and buildings, and the intensity of such use, as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purpose of this chapter;
(H) To prohibit uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the character of such districts respectively; and
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(I) To prevent additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed hereunder.
(Ord. passed 2-18-64)