To promote and protect the overall health, safety, convenience and welfare of the residents of Mansfield, Connecticut and the general public;

To provide for and facilitate the orderly growth and expansion of the municipality, thereby preventing an undue concentration of population and an overcrowding of the land, and thereby facilitating suitable provisions for transportation, potable water, sewerage and waste disposal, schools, parks, open space and other public requirements;

To protect the pattern of development and maintain the stability and property values of residential, business and industrial areas within the Town, including areas and properties of historic value;

To provide for the protection of the physical environment, including air quality, potential surface and ground drinking water supplies, and specific environmentally sensitive areas such as wetlands and watercourses and areas subject to flooding and/or erosion and sedimentation problems;

To encourage safe and efficient vehicular and pedestrian facilities and circulation patterns and thereby avoid traffic hazards and congestion;

To provide protection against fire, flood, explosion, hazardous materials and other potential dangers associated with existing or proposed land uses;

To provide for energy-efficient patterns of development, the use of solar and other renewable forms of energy and energy conservation;

To encourage the use of aesthetic considerations in designing proposed buildings and site improvements, thereby promoting attractive projects that are compatible with the pattern of development within the subject neighborhood, and promote the value of properties in the neighborhood and the Town;

To divide the Town into various zones, restricting and regulating therein the location of construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of land, buildings, structures and associated improvements for residence, business and industrial and other uses, with a view toward conserving the value of properties, encouraging a variety of housing and economic development opportunities, and encouraging compatible and appropriate uses of land within the various zones and throughout the town;

To protect residents from nuisances from sight and/or sound;

To define the powers and the duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided herein.