This Ordinance is adopted for the purpose of:

A.

Promoting the public health, safety, morals, convenience, and general welfare.

B.

Securing adequate light, pure air and safety from fire and other dangers.

C.

Conserving the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the City of Country Club Hills.

To these ends the Ordinance is designed to establish standards and accomplish objectives by:

A.

Dividing the entire City of Country Club Hills, into districts, and restricting the regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land whether for residence, business, manufacturing or other specified uses.

B.

Avoiding or lessening congestion in the public street.

C.

Preventing the overcrowding of land by regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected as related to land area.

D.

Establishing, regulating, and limiting the building or setback lines on or along streets, alleys, or property lines.

E.

Regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of lot areas, and determining the area of open spaces within and surrounding such buildings.

F.

Establishing standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform. G. Prohibiting uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of the residence, business or manufacturing districts.

H.

Preventing additions to, and alterations or remodeling to, existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder.

I.

Providing for the gradual elimination of those uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are made or located; including, without being limited thereto:

1)

Elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lot areas when existing rights of the persons in possession thereof are terminated, or when the uses to which they are devoted are discontinued;

2)

Elimination of uses to which such buildings and structures are devoted if they are adaptable for permitted uses; and

3)

Elimination of such buildings and structures when they are destroyed or damaged in major part, or when they have reached the age fixed by the corporate authorities of the municipality as the normal useful life of such buildings or structures.

J.

Providing for the acquisition by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of any buildings or structure which do not conform to the standards fixed by the City of Country Club Hills.

K.

Defining and limiting the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided hereinafter.

L.

Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any amendment thereto.