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This Title 19 is intended to protect public health, safety, comfort, and welfare and to ensure that the growth and development of the city is orderly and provides maximum benefit to its residents by establishing land use districts and regulations which prevent the misuse or abuse of the land. This Title 19 is further intended to protect individuals from the adverse impacts of neighboring incompatible land uses. This Title 19 specifies the areas where specific land uses may be located and sets standards for their development to ensure the safe and efficient functioning of all uses.
(Ord. 544 § 1(part), 2000).