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

To conserve the value of property.

To provide a guiding pattern of land use and population density which represents the most appropriate use of land within the Village, preserves the existing environmental and ecological assets of the land and recognizes current trends in land use planning and building design.

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

To provide for adequate light, air and other amenities.

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

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

To protect present and future property values and the tax base by promoting 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.