§ 18.02.020 — Purpose and Authority

A. Purpose. This Zoning Code is intended to carry out the policies of the Santa Clara General Plan. More specifically, the purpose of this Code is as follows: 1. Promote and protect the public comfort, convenience, health, safety, peace, and general welfare; 2. Provide a comprehensive zoning plan for the development of the City and to guide, control, and regulate the future growth of the City; 3. Minimize conflicts between private individual or groups or other conflicts that might result from incompatible or inappropriate adjacent land uses; 4. Promote orderly growth while providing adequate infrastructure and maximizing the efficient use of land; 5. Maintain and enhance desirable characteristics of the neighborhoods; 6. Protect the character, social and economic stability of residential, commercial, mixed use, industrial, and other private and public areas within the City, and ensure the orderly and beneficial development of these areas; 7. Prevent public safety conflicts between the locations of structures and streets; and 8. Provide adequate air, light, privacy, and convenience of access to property, and to ensure safety from fire, inundation, and other dangers. B. Authority. This Zoning Code is enacted based on the authority vested in Santa Clara and the State of California, including but not limited to the State Constitution, Subdivision Map Act (California Government Code Section 66410 et seq.), California Environmental Quality Act (California Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq.), the California Health and Safety Code, the City Charter, and the SCCC.