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 Mount Carmel
 Code of Ordinances
 Appendix A. ZONING
 Article I. NAME AND PURPOSE

  § 1-2. Purpose.  

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  • This ordinance is adopted for the following purposes:

    A.

    To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare of the people;

    B.

    To divide the city and all the unincorporated area within one and on-half miles of the municipal boundaries into zones and districts restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of buildings, structures and land for residence, business, commercial, manufacturing and other specified uses;

    C.

    To protect the character and maintain the stability of residential, business and industrial areas within the city, and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;

    D.

    To provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access to property;

    E.

    To regulate the intensity of use of zoning lots, and to determine the area of open spaces surrounding buildings that is necessary to provide adequate light and air and protect the public health;

    F.

    To establish building lines and the location of buildings designed for residential, business, industrial or other uses within such lines;

    G.

    To fix reasonable standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;

    H.

    To prohibit uses, buildings or structures which are incompatible with the character of development or the permitted uses within specified zoning districts;

    I.

    To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder;

    J.

    To limit congestion in the public streets and so protect the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare by providing for the off-street parking of motor vehicles and for the loading and unloading of commercial vehicles;

    K.

    To provide protection against fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort and general welfare;

    L.

    To prevent the overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures so far as is possible and appropriate in each district, by regulating the use and the bulk of buildings in relation to the land surrounding them;

    M.

    To conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the city;

    N.

    To provide for the gradual elimination of those uses of land, buildings and structures, and of those buildings and structures which do not conform to the standards of the district in which they are respectively located and which are adversely affecting the development and taxable value of property in each district;

    O.

    To provide for the condemnation of such nonconforming buildings or structures and of land as the city council shall determine is necessary or appropriate for the rehabilitation of the area blighted by such building or structures;

    P.

    To define and limit the powers and duties of the administration officers and bodies as provided herein;

    Q.

    Nothing contained in this zoning ordinance shall be deemed to be a consent, license or permit to use any property or to locate, construct or maintain any building, structure or facility or to carry on any trade, industry, occupation or activity.

(Ord. No. 234, § 1-2, 8-2-71)