18.02.030 Purpose.
A. The purpose of this title is to implement the city’s comprehensive plan. This title will be used to further the growth and development of the city consistent with the adopted comprehensive plan and its implementing elements. This title will also further the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, comfort, prosperity, and general welfare of the city’s population and to prevent and abate public nuisances.
B. The specific zones and regulations set out in this title are designed to:
1. Provide adequate public facilities and services, including utilities, roads, schools, and parks in conjunction with development;
2. Provide housing with essential light, air, privacy, and open space;
3. Facilitate the safe and efficient movement of traffic on the city’s streets;
4. Stabilize and enhance property values;
5. Facilitate adequate provisions for doing public and private business and thereby safeguard the community’s economic structure upon which the prosperity and welfare of all depends; and
6. Through such achievements, help ensure the safety and security of home life, foster good citizenship, and create and preserve a more healthful, serviceable and attractive municipality and environment in which to live.
C. To most effectively accomplish these purposes, this title divides the city into zones wherein the location, height and use of buildings, the use of land, the size of setback areas and other open space, and the provision of off-street parking and loading are regulated and restricted in accordance with the comprehensive plan for the city. These zones and regulations are deemed necessary and are made with reasonable consideration, among other things, as to the character of each zone and its particular suitability for specific uses, the need for such uses, the common rights and interests of all within the zone as well as those of the general public, and with the view of conserving and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the city and to prevent and abate public nuisances. (Ord. 6245 § 2, 2009; Ord. 5026 § 1, 1997; Ord. 4773 § 1, 1995; Ord. 4229 § 2, 1987. Formerly 18.02.020.)