This Zoning Ordinance is intended to encourage the growth and development of the City in accordance with the Logansport Comprehensive Plan, the fringe Comprehensive Plan and for the following purposes:

1. to secure adequate light, air, and convenience of access; and safety from fire, flood, and dangers;
2. to lessen or avoid congestion in the public ways;
3. to promote the public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience, and general welfare;
4. to plan for the future development of the City to the end:
   
   1. that highway systems be carefully planned;
   2. that new communities grow only with adequate public way, utility, health, educational and recreational facilities;
   3. that the needs of agriculture, industry, and business be recognized in future growth;
   4. that residential areas provide healthful surroundings for family life; and
   5. that the growth of the community is commensurate with and promotes the efficient and economical use of public funds.