§ 58.102. Purpose.

The provisions of this Code are intended to be the minimum requirements to promote the public health, safety, comfort, good order, appearance, morals and general welfare; to conserve the taxable value of land and buildings and to protect the character and maintain the stability of residential, business and industrial areas within the City and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas.

Among other purposes, this Code is intended to provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access to property; to avoid undue concentration of population by regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings; to regulate the size of open spaces surrounding buildings; to establish building lines; to divide the City into districts restricting and regulating therein the construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of buildings, structures and land for residence, business, industrial and other specified uses; to limit congestion in the public streets by providing off-street parking of motor vehicles and to define the powers and duties of the administrative officers, Boards and Commissions provided herein. It is also intended that these Chapters be a comprehensive Code of the regulations of the City of Orlando relating to Land Development.

(Ord. of 9-16-1991, Doc. #25094; Ord. of 4-20-1992, Doc. #25633)