This title shall be known and may be cited as the "Hainesville Zoning Ordinance" and may be referred to herein as the "Zoning Ordinance," "this title" or "this zoning code".

(Ord. No. 21-8-316, § 2(Exh. A), 8-24-21)

The Hainesville Zoning Ordinance is adopted with the purpose of protecting and promoting the public health, safety, and general welfare. This purpose is to be accomplished by seeking:

A. To establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air, and open spaces;

B. To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and land and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the village;

C. To lessen congestion on public streets, and to facilitate the provision of adequate transportation, and of other public requirements and services such as water, sewage, schools, and parks;

D. To avoid hazards to persons and damage to property from inappropriate development of lands;

E. To avoid undue concentration of population, and to prevent the overcrowding of land;

F. To provide for and preserve appropriate open space;

G. To protect residential, business, commercial, and industrial areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by other inappropriate uses;

H. To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses;

I. To establish reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall conform, and to encourage reasonable flexibility of development design through appropriate innovation;

J. To provide for the regulation of nonconforming buildings, structures, and uses;

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

L. To define the powers and duties of the administrative and enforcement officers and bodies;

M. To prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this title or of any amendment to this title;

N. To implement the objectives of the village comprehensive plan, as well as protect all appropriate existing structures and uses.

(Ord. No. 21-8-316, § 2(Exh. A), 8-24-21)

The provisions of this title shall be held to be minimum requirements adopted for the promotion of the public health, safety, and the general welfare. Whenever the requirements of this title are at variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted rules, regulations, ordinances, or resolutions, the most restrictive, or that imposing the more restrictive standards shall govern.

(Ord. No. 21-8-316, § 2(Exh. A), 8-24-21)

It is the intention of the village that the provisions of this title are severable if:

A. A court of competent jurisdiction adjudges any provision of this title to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect any other provision of this title not specifically included in the judgment; or

B. A court of competent jurisdiction adjudges invalid the application of any provision of this title to a particular property, building or structure, such judgment shall not affect the application of such provision to any other property, building or structure not specifically included in the judgment.

(Ord. No. 21-8-316, § 2(Exh. A), 8-24-21)

The Hainesville Zoning Ordinance shall be considered an integral part of the Village of Hainesville Municipal Code, and as such is interrelated with all other articles, chapters, and provisions of the code. All applications for permits under the terms of this code shall be subject to all the provisions of all other pertinent village regulations.

(Ord. No. 21-8-316, § 2(Exh. A), 8-24-21)