This chapter is designed to accomplish the following objectives:
a.
To promote, protect and facilitate the public health, safety and general welfare, and to make provisions for adequate community facilities and utilities;
b.
To promote orderly development;
c.
To prevent loss of life, health or property from fire, panic, floods and other dangers;
d.
To provide adequate light and air;
e.
To prevent the overcrowding of land;
f.
To avoid undue concentration of population;
g.
To lessen congestion in the streets and to determine the proper location and function streets;
h.
To facilitate the adequate provision of vehicle parking and loadings, transportation systems, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements;
i.
To regulate the intensity of the use of land;
j.
To prohibit the incompatible use of land;
k.
To attain the Municipality's developments as outlined in the Municipality's Master Plan;
l.
To conserve, maintain and strengthen the Municipality's tax base.