This ordinance is enacted pursuant to Title 13 of the Tennessee Code Annotated for the following purposes:

(a)

To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the people;

(b)

To divide the city into districts restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land;

(c)

To protect the character and maintain the stability of residential areas within the city, and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;

(d)

To provide adequate light, air, privacy, and convenience of access to property;

(e)

To regulate the intensity of open spaces surrounding buildings that is necessary to provide adequate light and air and protect the public health;

(f)

To establish building lines and the location of buildings within such lines;

(g)

To fix reasonable standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;

(h)

To prohibit uses, buildings or structures which are incompatible with the character of development or the permitted uses within specified zoning districts;

(i)

To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder;

(j)

To limit congestion in the public streets and so protect the public health, safety, convenience, and general welfare by providing for the off-street parking of motor vehicles;

(k)

To prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures so far as is possible and appropriate in each district by regulating the use and the bulk of buildings in relation to the land surrounding them;

(l)

To conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the city;

(m)

To provide for the gradual elimination of those uses of land, buildings and structures and of these buildings and structures which do not conform to the standards of the districts in which they are respectively located and which are adversely affecting the development and taxable value of property in each district;

(n)

To provide for condemnation of such nonconforming buildings and structures and of land as the board of commissioners shall determine is necessary or appropriate for the rehabilitation or the area blighted by such buildings or structures;

(o)

To provide protection for the views and natural integrity of the Radnor Lake State Natural Area;

(p)

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

(q)

These general purposes include the specific purposes stated in the various chapters throughout this ordinance. (Ord. No. 2-16, Jan. 2013)

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