This chapter shall be known as the
"Zoning Regulation." The Zoning Regulation chapter includes both the
text and the Official Zoning Maps herein adopted.
This chapter is established in accordance
with the provisions of Article 66B, Annotated Code of Maryland.
The provisions of this chapter shall
apply to the incorporated territory of Denton, Maryland.
A.
This chapter is adopted in accordance with
the Denton Comprehensive Plan for the purpose of controlling congestion
in the streets; securing the public safety; promoting health and the
general welfare; providing adequate light and air; promoting the conservation
of natural resources; preventing environmental pollution; avoiding
undue concentration of population; facilitating the adequate provision
of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, recreation, parks and
other public requirements. Such regulations are made with reasonable
consideration, among other things, to the character of the district
and its suitability for particular uses, and with a view to conserving
the value of buildings and encouraging the orderly development and
the most appropriate use of land throughout the jurisdiction. These
zoning regulations also have the purpose to preserve, improve, or
protect the general character and design of the lands and improvements
being zoned or rezoned through the power and authority to approve
or disapprove the design of buildings, construction, landscaping,
or other improvements, alterations, and changes made or to be made
on subject land or lands to assure conformity with the intent and
purpose of this chapter.
The terms of this chapter shall be
deemed to control and to have superseded the terms of any prior, conflicting
ordinance.
No building, structure, land, or
part thereof shall hereafter be used, occupied, altered, erected,
demolished, constructed or reconstructed unless in conformity with
this chapter.
