To promote the public health, safety, morals and general welfare.

To encourage practical and coordinated community development.

To establish proper density of population in the various zoning districts and provide adequate light, air and amenity.

To facilitate the fiscally responsible provision of adequate public highways and streets, vehicle parking and loading, public transportation, water supply, sewage disposal, public and private schools, parks and open spaces and other public requirements, such as public utilities and rights-of-way.

To prevent the overcrowding or improper or incompatible development or use of land and to prevent blighting conditions and congestion or hazard in travel and transportation.

To secure safety of health, life and lot from fire, flood, panic, noise, noxious fumes, explosion and other dangers.

To conserve and stabilize lot improvements through encouragement of the most appropriate uses of land in relation to one another.

To preserve forests, floodplains, steep hillsides, recreation and agricultural lands from conflict with intense development and from erosion, and to manage the release of stormwater to minimize downstream flooding.

To facilitate generally orderly and compatible growth and expansion of the public improvements.

As guidelines for conducting a planning program that embodies rather high ideals yet realistically approaches the problems facing the region, the municipalities propose the following list of objectives: