It is the purpose of this chapter to promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the city by encouraging the use of lands and natural resources in the city in accordance with their character, adaptability, and suitability for particular purposes; to enhance social and economic stability; to prevent excessive concentration of population; to reduce hazards due to flooding; to conserve and stabilize the value of property; to provide adequate open space for light and air; to prevent fire and facilitate the fighting of fires; to allow for a variety of residential housing types and commercial and industrial land uses; to lessen congestion on the public streets and highways; to facilitate adequate and economical provisions of transportation, sewerage and drainage, water supply and distribution, and educational and recreational facilities: ensuring adequate provisions for food, natural resources, housing, and commerce, insuring appropriate locations and relationships for uses of land; and facilitating the expenditure of funds for adequate public facilities and services and the expenditure of funds for other public facilities and services, by establishing herein standards for physical development in accordance with the objectives and policies contained in the future land use plan for the city and to provide for the administration and enforcement of such standards.

(Code 2002, § 220-1)