This chapter is enacted for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals and the general welfare of the Township in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan and is designed to lessen congestion in the streets, roads and highways and to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements and to encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the Township.
In interpreting and applying the provisions of this chapter, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the Township.