The following zoning provisions and the zoning map established hereby have been enacted
in accordance with a comprehensive plan of land use for the purpose of: promoting
the health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience prosperity, and general welfare of
the residents of the city; dividing the city into zones or districts restricting and
regulating therein the location, erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration,
and use of buildings, structures, and land for specified uses; regulating the intensity
of the use of land; regulating and determining the area of open spaces surrounding
buildings in order to prevent the overcrowding of land and to ensure adequate light
and air; protecting waterways and natural resources; establishing building lines and
the location of buildings designed for specified industrial, commercial, residential
and other uses within such areas and fixing standards to which buildings or structures
shall conform therein; prohibiting uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with
the character of the specified districts; preventing additions to and alterations
or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions
and limitations imposed hereunder; limiting congestion in the public streets by providing
for off-street parking and loading and unloading of vehicles; providing for the gradual
elimination of nonconforming uses of land, buildings and structures; and conserving
the economic value of land and buildings throughout the city.
(Code 1978, § 9.01.03; Ord. No. 73-05, 5-21-1973)
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