Planning and Zoning

This zoning regulation is consistent with the county Comprehensive Development Plan and is designed for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity and welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the county, including, a month others, such specific purposes as:

• Developing both urban and non-urban areas;
• Lessening congestion in the streets or roads;
• Reducing the waste of excessive amounts of roads;
• Securing safety from fire and other dangers;
• Lessening or avoiding the hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation of run-off of storm or flood waters;
• Providing adequate light and air;
• Preventing excessive concentration of population and excessive and wasteful scattering of population settlement;
• Promoting such distribution of population such as classification of land uses, and such distribution of land development as will assure adequate provisions for transportation, water flowage, water supply, drainage, sanitation, recreation, soil fertility, food supply, and other public requirements.
• Protecting the tax base;
• Protecting property against blight and depreciation;
• Securing economy in governmental expenditures;
• Fostering the state’s agriculture, recreation, and other industries;
• Encouraging the most appropriate use of land in the county;
• Preserving, protecting and enhancing historic building, places, and districts