This chapter is adopted for the purpose of promoting
the health, safety, morals and the general welfare of the community
and in furtherance of the following related and more specific objectives:
A. To guide and regulate the orderly growth, development
and redevelopment of the municipality in accordance with a Comprehensive
Plan and with long-term objectives, principles and standards deemed
beneficial to the interests and welfare of the people.
B. To protect the established character and social and
economic well-being of the evolving community as it is affected by
the use of both private and public property.
C. To promote, in the public interest, the utilization
of land for the purposes for which it is most appropriate.
D. To secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers
and to provide adequate light, air and convenience of access.
E. To prevent overcrowding of land or buildings and to
avoid undue concentration of population.
F. To lessen and, where possible, to prevent traffic
congestion on public streets and highways.
G. To eliminate nonconforming uses gradually.
H. To conserve the value of buildings and to enhance
the value of land throughout the municipality.
I. To lessen the potential for excessive erosion and
to conserve and reasonably to protect the natural scenic beauty of
the municipality and its environs.