This chapter is enacted for the purpose of lessening
congestion on the roads and highways; to secure safety from fire,
panic and other danger; to promote health, morals and the general
welfare; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding
of land; to avoid undue congestion of population; to facilitate the
adequate provision of transportation, water, sewage, schools, park
and other requirements.
This chapter has been enacted as a means of
furthering the community development objectives of the Township of
Patterson as delineated in the document Future Land Use and Policy
Guidelines, 1983. The more particularized community development objectives
relate to the following elements:
A.
Creation and maintenance of orderly development patterns
and the coordination of relationships between living, working and
recreation areas of the community to provide for functionally distinguishable
but complementary districts.
B.
Maintenance of the residential character and quality
of the community.
C.
Protection of the natural environmental quality and
significant open land features throughout the Township.
D.
Improvement of the aesthetic quality of the community.
E.
Development of a balance of residential and nonresidential
uses to create a higher standard of living by nurturing a local economy
which can provide increased employment, tax and income base commensurate
with demands of the area labor force.
F.
Control of population density consistent with the
ability of the community to expand in an orderly, healthful and safe
manner.
G.
Development of accessways, utilities, municipal services
and community facilities consistent with local needs.
H.
Prevention of blight and preservation of the value
of property.
