This code shall have the purposes prescribed in Ohio R.C. Chapter 713, and is enacted for the following additional purposes:
(a) To promote the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare;
(b) To conserve and protect property and owner investment;
(c) To promote the most appropriate use of land;
(d) To guide the density of population;
(e) To manage and support efficient travel modes;
(f) To provide a method of administration and to prescribe penalties for violations of provisions of this code; and
(g) To support the Village Comprehensive Plan and its key principles, including:
(1) Make land use provisions and decisions that make possible the restoration, maintenance and retention of a population, employment and economic base that is capable of sustaining the community;
(2) Make provisions for a range of housing opportunities, costs and choices that provide safe, quality housing for current and potential residents of all income levels, paying particular attention to modest cost housing to ensure maintenance of income diversity in our town;
(3) Support land use development in which residents can live, walk and bicycle to work, to learn, to shop, to worship and to play;
(4) Encourage collaborative land use development that honors both landowners' rights to a fair return on the value of their land and the community's desire to determine how and where it wants to grow. The Comprehensive Plan should be the guideline used by policy makers when making decisions on land use and zoning matters.
(5) Promote compatible mixed-use land use adjacencies that foster synergies (not disharmonies) among residential, commercial, retail, educational and industrial uses;
(6) Preserve open space, naturally occurring topographic features and vegetation, critical environmental areas and historic buildings and land uses;
(7) Promote a transportation infrastructure that supports safety, compatibility and accessibility for pedestrian, bicycle and motorized vehicles;
(8) Direct new residential development, should it occur, to areas either already served by existing infrastructure - water, sanitary sewer, electric and streets - and/or to yet undeveloped areas within current Village borders where compatible land use adjacencies already exist. New development shall be encouraged within the Village through infill and greater density and it shall not be considered outside the Urban Service Area. The Village will work with the Township to balance controlled development with goals for preservation of the Jacoby Greenbelt; and
(9) Promote new retail, commercial and industrial development in areas in the community where these land uses already exist (are already zoned for) and/or to yet undeveloped areas within current Village borders. New development shall be encouraged within the Village through infill and greater density and it shall not be considered outside the Urban Service Area. The Village will work with the Township to balance controlled development with goals of preservation of the Jacoby Greenbelt.
(Ord. 2013-19. Passed 9-16-13.)