Schedule of Limitations. The restrictions and controls designed to regulate the use of land, concentration of population, and traffic generation in each zone are set forth herewith and as further supplemented by this chapter.

To protect buildings and property against fire, explosion, noxious fumes, other hazards, offensive noise, vibrations, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare and other objectionable influences.

To promote the aesthetic compatibility of all development with the community.

To protect residential and neighborhood commercial areas against congestion by regulating the bulk of buildings in relation to the land around them and to provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for development to meet the needs and demands of the anticipated growth in the population.

To maintain and protect existing residential neighborhoods throughout the Borough and increase residential land usage through infill, rehabilitation and redevelopment.

To encourage residential development which is compatible in density with the surrounding neighborhood.

To eliminate existing nonconforming uses in residential neighborhoods and prohibit any future obtrusive nonconforming uses from occurring.

To prevent increased deterioration and blight of existing residential neighborhoods through a continuation of current rehabilitation programs and the creation of innovative programs to increase home ownership and improve affordability to low- and moderate-income households.

To protect residential and commercial areas against the intrusion of abnormal vehicular traffic and to provide sufficient space for off-street parking.

To protect quasi-residential uses which require a residential environment to effectively provide essential health and welfare services to the Borough's residents.

To promote the creation of a business-, professional- and service-oriented commercial environment.

To encourage the tendency of commercial development to cluster to the mutual advantage of both customers and merchants and thus promote and establish prosperity and welfare.

To promote the creation of a pedestrian-oriented neighborhood commercial environment which encourages maximum pedestrian activity.

To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for attractive, modern, landscaped industrial complexes which do not create any hazards, nuisances or other objectionable influences, such as heavy trucking, which would be offensive to adjoining lands that require an environment free from these influences.