[Amended 2-5-2013 by L.L. No. 1-2013]
This chapter shall be known as the "Village
of Oxford Zoning Law."
[Added 2-5-2013 by L.L. No. 1-2013]
If any word, phrase, sentence, part, section, subsection, or
other portion of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person
or to any circumstance, is adjudged or declared invalid or unenforceable
by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction, then, and
in such event, such judgment or declaration shall be confined in its
interpretation and operation only to the provision of this chapter
that is directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment
or declaration is rendered, and such judgment or declaration of invalidity
or unenforceability shall not affect or impair the validity or enforceability
of the remainder of this chapter or the application hereof to any
other persons or circumstances. If necessary as to such person or
circumstances, such invalid or unenforceable provision shall be and
be deemed severed herefrom, and the Village Board hereby declares
that it would have enacted this chapter, or the remainder thereof,
even if, as to particular provisions and persons or circumstances,
a portion hereof is severed or declared invalid or unenforceable.
The provisions of this chapter are the minimum
requirements adopted to promote the health, safety and general welfare
of this community. They are deemed necessary for the following purposes:
A. Promote orderly development. To protect the character
and maintain the stability of residential, business and manufacturing
areas within the Village and to promote the orderly and beneficial
development of such areas.
B. Regulate intensity of use. To regulate the intensity
of use of zoning lots and to determine the area of open spaces surrounding
buildings, necessary to provide adequate light and air, privacy and
convenience of access to property and to protect the public health.
C. Regulate location of buildings. To establish building
lines and the location of buildings designed for residential, commercial,
manufacturing or other uses within such lines.
D. Establish standards of development. To fix reasonable
standards to which buildings or structures shall conform.
E. Prohibit incompatible uses. To prohibit uses, buildings
or structures which are incompatible with the character of development
of the permitted uses within specified zoning districts.
F. Regulate alterations of existing buildings. To regulate
such additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings
or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations
imposed hereunder.
G. Limit congestion in streets. To limit congestion in
the public streets and so protect the public health, safety, convenience
and general welfare by providing for off-street parking of automobiles
and for the loading and unloading of commercial vehicles.
H. Protect against hazards. To provide protection against
fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards in the interest of
the public health, safety, comfort and the general welfare.
I. Conserve taxable value of land. To conserve the taxable
value of land and buildings throughout the Village.