This Chapter shall be known, cited and referred to as the VILLAGE OF MOUNT PROSPECT ZONING ORDINANCE. (Ord. 4590, 9-21-1993)

The Mount Prospect Zoning Ordinance is adopted for the purpose of protecting and promoting the health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare of residents of the Village. Accomplishing this purpose is achieved by the following objectives:

   A.   To provide zoning for all properties with a goal of conserving the value of buildings and land and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the Village.

   B.   To protect residential, business, commercial, and industrial areas from encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land designated by a specific zoning classification shall not be adversely effected by inappropriate uses.

   C.   To establish reasonable and safe standards to which buildings shall conform.

   D.   To establish appropriate standards for the provision of light, air, safety, and open space.

   E.   To prohibit the inappropriate development of land and to provide for adequate drainage amounts of impervious surface on lots as an attempt to reduce localized flooding.

   F.   To provide a rational relationship between residential, business, commercial and industrial uses.

   G.   To allow a rational development of land that will ensure proper living and working conditions and proper relationships between residential and nonresidential development.

   H.   To facilitate development in a fashion whereby all public utilities can be adequately provided.

   I.   To establish minimum standards to which uses of land and building shall conform.

   J.   To provide for the regulation of nonconforming uses, nonconforming structures, and the gradual elimination thereof.

   K.   To define the duties and powers of elected and appointed officials and professional staff.

   L.   To designate penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Chapter and to provide a basis for proper enforcement.

The standards and requirements contained in this Chapter and the Zoning District Map are intended to implement the goals of the Comprehensive Plan of the Village and all planning policies of the Village. (Ord. 4590, 9-21-1993)