This Title shall be known and may be cited as the MORTON ZONING ORDINANCE.

This Title is adopted for the following purpose:

1. Securing adequate light, pure air, and safety from fire and other dangers;
2. Conserving the taxable value of lands and buildings throughout the Municipality;
3. Lessening or avoiding congestion in public streets;
4. Lessening or avoiding the hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation or runoff of storm or flood waters; and
5. Promoting the public health, safety, comfort, morals, and welfare.
   

To these ends, this Title is intended to establish certain standards and objectives by:

1. Regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings;
2. Establishing, regulating, and limiting the building lines along any street, parkway, water channel, or basin;
3. Regulating and limiting the intensity and use of lot areas and the area of open spaces within and surrounding buildings;
4. Classifying, regulating, and restricting location of trades and industries and location of buildings designed for specified business, residential, and other uses;
5. Dividing the Municipality into districts of such number, shape, area, and of such different classes as may be deemed necessary;
6. Fixing standards to which buildings and structures shall conform;
   
7. Prohibiting proposed uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the district in which located, or eliminating gradually existing uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the district in which located;
8. Preventing additions, alterations, or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid restrictions and limitations imposed under this Title;
9. Classifying, regulating, and restricting the use of property on the basis of family relationship. (Ord. 78-31, 3-5-79)