The Flossmoor Zoning Ordinance is adopted for the following
purposes:
A.
To promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the
citizens of the Village;
B.
To conserve the value of property throughout the Village and to protect
the character and stability of residential and business areas;
C.
To promote orderly and beneficial development so that land throughout
the Village may be put to its most appropriate uses;
D.
To provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access
to property;
E.
To avoid or lessen congestion in the public streets;
F.
To protect against fire, panic, explosion, noxious fumes and other
dangers;
G.
To prevent the overcrowding of land and to avoid undue concentration
of population;
H.
To avoid or lessen the hazards to persons and property resulting
from the accumulation and runoff of storm- and flood waters;
I.
To regulate and restrict the location and use of buildings, structures
and land for trade, residence and other uses, and to regulate and
restrict the intensity of such uses;
J.
To divide the Village into districts of such numbers, shapes and
areas, and of such different classes, according to the use of land
and buildings and the intensity of such use, as is best suited to
carrying out the purposes of this chapter;
K.
To prohibit uses, buildings and structures that are incompatible
with the character of development intended for specified zoning districts;
L.
To prevent additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing
buildings and structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions
and limitations imposed hereunder;
M.
To fix reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall
conform;
N.
To define and limit the powers and the duties of administrative officers
and bodies as provided herein; and
O.
To prescribe penalties for the violation of, and methods for the
enforcement of, the provisions of this chapter or any amendment thereto.
