This Appendix, or Code, is adopted pursuant to the City's home rule powers for the purpose of improving and protecting the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the people. The fulfillment of this purpose is to be accomplished by pursuing the following objectives:

1.1a To lessen congestion on the public streets.

1.1b To avoid undue concentration of population.

1.1c To prevent the overcrowding of land, thereby insuring proper living and working conditions and preventing the development of blight and slums.

1.1d To establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air, and open spaces.

1.1e To facilitate the provision of adequate public services such as transportation, water, sewerage, open space and parks.

1.1f To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the city.

1.1g To protect all areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by inappropriate uses within the parameters of the standards and requirements of this Code.

1.1h To avoid the inappropriate development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing or erosion, and reduction of flood damage.

1.1i To fix reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall conform.

1.1j To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed herein.

1.1k To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, business and industrial uses for the mutual benefit of all.

1.1l To recognize the riverfront and adjacent properties as a visual, environmental, and recreational resource that affects and benefits the City as a whole.

1.1m To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses.

1.1n To define the powers and duties of the administrative and enforcement officers and bodies.

1.1o To prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Code, or of any subsequent amendments hereto.

The standards and requirements contained in this Code and the district mapping reflected on the City of Rock Island Zoning Map are intended to implement all elements of the City of Rock Island Comprehensive Land Use Plan and the other adopted planning policies of the City. (Ord. 070-2020, 12-21-2020)