To protect the character of the Village's environment areas and the quality and viability of the districts by assuring that future development will be in harmony therewith.

To secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers.

To provide a guiding pattern of land use and population density which:

To aid in establishing the most efficient relationship between the use of land and buildings and the movement and circulation of traffic.

To lessen congestion in the streets.

To provide for adequate light, clean air and other amenities.

To provide a guide for the effective provision of municipal facilities and services and special district facilities and services.

To protect social and economic stability and thus encourage orderly and beneficial development.

To protect and conserve present and future property values and the tax base through the promotion of harmonious and enduring neighborhoods, by preventing the construction of inappropriately large or inappropriately small structures in established districts, by preventing monotonous and unsightly uniformity of building development or unsightly structures of incongruous or inappropriate form that might tend to depress surrounding property values, all of which purposes are hereby declared to be legitimate and proper public objectives, clearly in the public interest and in harmony with the broad purposes enumerated in the Village Law.

To avoid undue and unique concentration of population.

To ensure that the Village's commercial maritime heritage will be maintained and enhanced.

To maintain, encourage and promote the development of commercial water-dependent uses that have traditionally been associated with the Village of Manorhaven waterfront and to accommodate water-enhanced commercial uses that are compatible with and supportive of water-dependent uses.

To expand and enhance access to a limited deep water resource for commercial and recreational uses, and maximize employment opportunities from water-dependent commerce.

To provide waterfront amenities for public enjoyment of the shore.

To protect the existing, and where desirable to promote and improve, environmental quality of natural areas and open space.

To protect and provide for public visual access to and from Manhasset Bay.