To encourage municipal action to guide and regulate orderly growth, development and redevelopment in accordance with the Borough's Master Plan in order to promote the public health, safety, morals, convenience and general welfare.

To provide adequate light, air and open space, convenience and safety of access.

To prevent overcrowding of land and buildings and to avoid undue concentration of population.

To establish zoning districts and to set forth regulations governing these districts, in order to encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the Borough.

To regulate and restrict buildings and structures to specified districts, their type, and the nature and extent of their use.

To secure safety from fire, flood, panic and other natural and man-made disasters.

To ensure that development of this municipality does not conflict with the development of adjacent municipalities.

To conserve and enhance the value of property throughout the Borough of South River.

To facilitate the adequate provision of municipal services and the appropriate expenditure of public funds.

To promote the general welfare of the public by providing for affordable housing within the Borough of South River.

To provide a realistic opportunity to accomplish the Borough of South River's fair share of the regional need for low- and moderate-income housing and establish a mechanism for assuring that housing units designated for occupancy by low- or moderate-income households remain affordable to and occupied by such households.

To protect the value, established character, and the social and economic well-being of both private and public property.