Section 1.02
The purpose of this Ordinance is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare of the community as a wholesome, serviceable, and attractive municipality, by having regulations and restrictions that:
Promote compatibility of existing and future land uses.
the safety and security of home life.
Preserve and create a favorable quality of life for residents.
Develop good citizenship.
Protect and enhance property and civic values.
Facilitate efficient traffic operations, minimize congestion, and accident potential.
Enhance the environment for pedestrians and other non-motorized types of transportation.
Restrict building in floodplain areas as a means of protecting property owners.
Protect wetlands in recognition of their irreplaceable environmental value.
Promote aesthetics and minimize blight.
Provide for convenient vehicular parking.
Provide parks, recreation, schools, religious institutions, and community facilities.
Encourage a variety of quality housing.
Encourage preservation of environmental features through flexible design standards.
Promote clean air and water, access to sunlight, sufficient infrastructure, and public services.
Assist in implementing and accomplishing the objectives of the Village’s adopted Master Plan.
Provide reasonable means of protecting and safeguarding the Village’s economic structure.
Provide each property owner with a reasonable and economic use of their land.
Lessen congestion, disorder and infringement on property values, safety, and quality of life which are often aggravated due to unregulated development.
Prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population.
2. In order to effectively meet this purpose, the Village is divided into districts of such number, shape, and area, and of such common unity of purpose, adaptability, or use, that are deemed most suitable to provide for the best general civic use, protect the common rights and interests within each district, and the Village as a whole, preserve the property owners right to use their land, and to promote quality of life and business vitality. The regulations of this Ordinance accomplish these purposes by controlling land uses within each district; acknowledging the unique impacts of special land uses through specific standards for their development in appropriate locations within selected districts; promoting quality by limiting the location, height, bulk, occupancy, and uses of buildings, and other structures; defining maximum residential density, specifying the percentage of a site available for a building; and requiring building and parking setbacks from property lines and public street rights-of-way.