A. This Title is adopted to the end that:
1. Adequate light, pure air and safety from fire and other dangers may be secured;
2. That the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the Village may be conserved;
3. That congestion in the public streets may be lessened or avoided;
4. That the hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation of runoff of storm or flood waters may be lessened or avoided;
5. That the public health, safety, comfort, morals and welfare may be otherwise promoted;
6. To insure and facilitate the preservation of sights, areas and structures of historical, architectural and aesthetic importance; and,
7. That aesthetic values throughout the Village may be preserved and enhanced.
B. To achieve these ends, this Title sets forth regulations and standards to:
1. Regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected;
2. Establish, regulate and limit the building or setback lines on or along any street, trafficway, drive, parkway or storm or flood water runoff channel or basin;
3. Regulate and limit the intensity of the use of lot areas, and to regulate and determine the area of open spaces within and surrounding such buildings;
4. 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. Divide the entire Village into districts of such number, shape, area and of such different classes (according to use of land and buildings, height and bulk of buildings, intensity of the use of lot area, area of open spaces or other classification) as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this Title;
6. Fix standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform;
7. Prohibit uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of such districts;
8. Prevent additions to and alteration or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed under this Title;
9. Classify, regulate and restrict the use of property on the basis of family relationship, which family relationship may be defined as one or more persons each related to the other by blood, marriage or adoption and maintaining a common household;
10. Regulate or forbid any structure or activity which may hinder access to solar energy necessary for the proper functioning of a solar energy system as defined in section 1.2 of the Comprehensive Solar Energy Act of 1985, Illinois Revised Statutes, chapter 961/2, as amended, paragraph 7303;
11. Provide for the gradual elimination of uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are made or located;
12. Define and limit the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as hereinafter provided; and
13. Proscribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of the Title or any amendment hereto. (1976 Code §22-1-2)