The purpose of this Ordinance is to promote the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare; to encourage the use of lands in accordance with their character and adaptability; and to limit the improper use of land; to avoid the overcrowding of population; to provide adequate light and air; to lessen congestion of the public roads and streets; to reduce hazards to life and property; to facilitate adequate provisions for a system of transportation, sewage disposal, safe and adequate water supply, education, recreation and other public requirements; and to conserve the expenditure of funds for public improvements and services to conform with the most advantageous uses of land, resources and properties, and with reasonable consideration among other things, to the character of each district, its peculiar suitability for particular uses, the conservation of property values and natural resources, and the general and appropriate trend and character of land, building, and population development as studied and recommended within a comprehensive development plan by the Macomb Township Planning Commission, and regulations adopted, therefore, by the Macomb Township Board.

The Provisions of this Ordinance shall be considered as minimum standards and requirements within each respective zoning district and shall not preclude the establishment of higher, or more restrictive standards, or requirements for the authorization of any Special Land uses permit, where such higher or more restrictive standards or requirements are found necessary by the Township Planning Commission to attain the intent of this Ordinance.

Conflicting laws of a more restrictive nature are not affected or repealed by this Ordinance. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be considered as minimum, and such conflicting laws of a more restrictive nature shall supersede any provisions of this Ordinance. Conflicting laws of a less restrictive nature, or those conflicting in other ways than degrees of restrictiveness, are hereby repealed.