This chapter, providing minimum requirements,
is adopted for the promotion and protection of public health, safety,
comfort, prosperity and general welfare. The City Council shall have
the authority:
A.
To regulate
and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter to be erected.
B.
To establish,
regulate and limit the building or setback lines on or along any street,
trafficway, drive, parkway or storm or floodwater runoff channel or
basin.
C.
To regulate
and limit the intensity of the use of lot areas, and to regulate and
determine the area of open spaces.
D.
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.
E.
To divide
the entire City into districts of such number, shape, area, and of
such different classes as may be deemed best suited to carry out the
purposes of this chapter.
F.
To establish
reasonable standards to which buildings or structures therein shall
conform.
G.
To prohibit
uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of such
districts.
H.
To prevent
additions to and alteration or remodeling of existing buildings or
structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations
imposed under this chapter.
I.
To classify,
to regulate and restrict the use of property.
J.
To isolate
or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses.
K.
To define
the powers and duties of the administrative bodies as provided herein.
L.
To prescribe
penalties for the violation of the provisions of this chapter or any
amendments hereto.
