To guide and regulate the orderly development of the Town in accordance with a comprehensive plan.

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

To promote, in the public interest, the utilization of land for the purposes for which it is most appropriate.

To secure that maximum recharge of the Town's fresh groundwater reserve to assure both the maintenance of the natural environment and the ecosystems essential to its continued well-being and the optimum groundwater resource for the human community through the protection of such features of the watershed areas as the woodlands, streams, ponds, lakes and aquifer recharge zones and to regulate the ultimate land use and consequent fresh water consumption so that the potential demand for fresh water shall not exceed the reasonably determined safe yield of that fresh groundwater reservoir.

To secure safety from fire, panic, flood, storm and other dangers, to provide adequate light, air and convenience of access and to prevent environmental pollution.

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

To conserve the values of buildings and to enhance the value of land throughout the Town.

To provide housing sites for residents of the community compatible with their economic means.

To conserve and to protect the natural scenic beauty and cultural and historic resources of the Town.

To accommodate and promote agricultural activity within the Town.