§ 28-2. Purpose.

This chapter is enacted to preserve and promote the public health, safety and general welfare, and for the following more particularly specified purposes:

(1)

To protect the character and stability of residential, commercial, industrial and recreational areas within the city, and to promote the orderly development of such areas.

(2)

To prevent overcrowding the land and undue congestion of population.

(3)

To regulate the location of buildings and the use of buildings and land adjacent to streets and thoroughfares.

(4)

To promote environmental quality and prevent the contamination of the city's natural resources.

(5)

To guide and regulate future growth and development of the city in accordance with the city's land use plan.

(6)

To seek achievement of other objectives authorized by law.

(Code 1977, § 5.3)