§ 39-1. Purpose; division of County into districts.

(a)

The purpose of this code is to promote the public health, safety, morals, convenience, comfort, amenities, prosperity, and general welfare of the community, and of a wholesome, serviceable, and attractive County, by having regulations and restrictions that increase the safety and security of home life; that preserve and create a more favorable environment in which to rear children; that develop permanent good citizenship; that stabilize and enhance property and civic values; that provide for a more uniformly just land-use pattern and tax assessment basis; that facilitate adequate provisions for increased safety in traffic and for transportation, vehicular parking, parks, parkways, recreation, schools, public buildings, housing, light, air, water supply, sewerage, sanitation, and other public requirements; that lessen congestion, disorder, and danger which often inhere in unregulated development; that prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population; and that provide more reasonable and serviceable means and methods of protecting and safeguarding the economic structure upon which the good of all depends.

(b)

In order to more effectively protect and promote the general welfare and to accomplish the aims and purposes of this comprehensive plan, the county 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 of all, and to promote improved wholesome, sightly, harmonious and economic results in civic service, activities and operations; and by further regulations to limit the location, uses and occupancy of buildings, structures and land to be used for trade, industry, residence or other purposes, and also the location, height, bulk, occupancy and uses of buildings and other structures, including the percentage of plot occupancy and coverage, street setback lines, sizes of yards, and other open spaces.

(Ord. No. 2013-04, § 2, 2-12-13)