§ 1337.01. Statement of legislative intent.

The residential districts established in this Zoning Ordinance are designed to promote and protect public health, safety, comfort, convenience, prosperity and other aspects of the general welfare. These general goals include, among others, the following specific purposes:

(1)

To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for residential development to meet the housing needs of the City's present and expected future population, with due allowance for the need for a choice of sites and building types;

(2)

To protect residential areas, as far as possible, against heavy traffic and against through traffic of all kinds;

(3)

To protect residential areas against congestion, by regulating the density of population and the bulk of buildings in relation to the land around them and to one another, and by providing for off-street parking spaces;

(4)

To require the provision of open space and a maximum conservation of woodlands and protection of watercourses in residential areas, and to encourage the provision of additional open space by permitting cluster development of moderately higher density and intensity coverage with concomitantly higher standards of open space, in order to provide large open areas with greater utility for rest and recreation; and to encourage the development of more attractive and economic and less monotonous building forms, by providing freedom of architectural and site design;

(5)

To provide for access of light and air to windows and for privacy by controls over the spacing and height of buildings and other structures;

(6)

To provide appropriate space for those public and private educational, recreational, health and similar facilities which serve the needs of the nearby residents, which generally perform their own activities more effectively in a residential environment, and which do not create objectionable influences;

(7)

To promote the most desirable use of land and direction of building development in accord with a well-considered plan, to promote stability of residential development, to protect the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, to conserve the value of land and buildings and to protect the City's tax revenue.

(Code 1991, § 1337.01; Ord. of 10-3-1977)