176.02    INTENT AND PURPOSE.  The Zoning Ordinance, as set forth in the text and map which constitute the Zoning Ordinance, is adopted for the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, morals, and the general welfare of the people, and is intended to accomplish the following objectives:

1.                  The lessening of congestion on the public streets.

2.                  The securing of safety from fire, flood, panic, and other dangers.

3.                  The avoiding of undue concentration of population.

4.                  The prevention of overcrowding of land, thereby ensuring proper living and working conditions and preventing the development of slums and blight.

5.                  The establishment of adequate standards for the provision of light, air, and open spaces.

6.                  The provision of adequate transportation and other public requirements and services such as water, sewerage, schools and parks.

7.                  The encouragement of the coordinated optimum physical development of the community.

8.                  The preservation and protection of existing property uses and values against adverse or unharmonious adjacent uses.

9.                  The establishment of reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall conform.

10.              The establishment of a rational pattern of relationships between residential, commercial, and industrial uses for the mutual benefit of all.

11.              The prescription of penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any amendment thereto.