Zoning regulations and districts as herein set forth have been
made in order to promote public health, safety, morals and general
welfare of the community, to facilitate orderly and harmonious development
and the visual character of the community, and to regulate the density
of population and intensity of land use in order to provide for adequate
light and air. Further, these regulations provide for vehicular fire
and police protection and preventing the overcrowding of land, blight,
danger and congestion in the circulation of people and commodities
and the loss of life, health or prosperity from fire, flood and other
dangers. It is further employed to protect airports, highways and
other transportation facilities, public facilities, including schools
and public grounds, commercial, industrial, residential, farmland
and other specific uses which warrant special protection by the community.
