§ 21.10.020. Purpose.

The purpose of the Zoning Regulations is to promote and preserve the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, prosperity and general welfare of the people of Long Beach. Specifically, the Zoning Regulations intend to achieve the following objectives:

A.

To promote achievement of the proposals of the City General Plan;

B.

To advance the City's position as a regional center of commerce, industry, tourism, recreation and culture;

C.

To protect residential, commercial, industrial, public and institutional areas from the intrusion of incompatible land uses;

D.

To provide for desirable, appropriately located living areas in a variety of dwelling types and at a wide range of population densities, with adequate provisions for sunlight, fresh air and usable open space;

E.

To assure preservation of adequate space for commercial, industrial and other activities necessary for a healthy economy;

F.

To promote safe, expeditious and efficient movement of people and goods, with a maximum of choice in modes of travel and with adequate provisions for parking, loading and the transfer of modes of travel;

G.

To achieve excellence of design in all future developments and to preserve the natural beauty of the City's environmental setting;

H.

To promote the growth and productivity of the City's economy;

I.

To stabilize expectations regarding future development, thereby providing a basis for rational decisions;

J.

To provide opportunities for establishments to be located for efficient operation in a mutually beneficial relationship to each other and to shared services;

K.

To secure equity among individuals in the use of their property;

L.

To distribute population growth in the City in such a way as to maximize the quality of life enjoyed by all persons who have an interest in Long Beach;

M.

To guide and encourage the renewal of areas experiencing blight, deterioration and obsolescence, while protecting and preserving the City's cultural heritage; and

N.

To locate and control land uses so that no noise, vibration, electrical disturbance, smoke, gaseous or particulate matter, odor, glare, heat, radioactivity, biological material, dust, nor hazard is generated, created or emitted from any use so as to be a substantial risk to public health, safety and welfare or to be of such an extent, intensity or duration as to be a nuisance to or adversely affect adjacent properties or uses.

(Ord. C-6533 § 1 (part), 1988)