To promote, protect and facilitate the public health, safety and general welfare, and to make provisions for adequate community facilities and utilities;

To promote orderly development;

To prevent loss of life, health or property from fire, panic, floods and other dangers;

To provide adequate light and air;

To prevent the overcrowding of land;

To avoid undue concentration of population;

To lessen congestion in the streets and to determine the proper location and function streets;

To facilitate the adequate provision of vehicle parking and loadings, transportation systems, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements;

To regulate the intensity of the use of land;

To prohibit the incompatible use of land;

To attain the Municipality's developments as outlined in the Municipality's Master Plan;

To conserve, maintain and strengthen the Municipality's tax base.