The Mansfield Planning and Zoning Commission, acting under authority of the Town Referendum held on March 28, 1958, and Chapter 124 of the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut, hereby adopts and enacts these regulations as the "Zoning Regulations of the Town of Mansfield."
These regulations have been adopted in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 124 of the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut. These regulations are designed to meet statutory responsibilities and to achieve the following purposes:
A.
To promote and protect the overall health, safety, convenience and
welfare of the residents of Mansfield, Connecticut and the general
public;
B.
To provide for and facilitate the orderly growth and expansion of
the municipality, thereby preventing an undue concentration of population
and an overcrowding of the land, and thereby facilitating suitable
provisions for transportation, potable water, sewerage and waste disposal,
schools, parks, open space and other public requirements;
C.
To protect the pattern of development and maintain the stability
and property values of residential, business and industrial areas
within the Town, including areas and properties of historic value;
D.
To provide for the protection of the physical environment, including
air quality, potential surface and ground drinking water supplies,
and specific environmentally sensitive areas such as wetlands and
watercourses and areas subject to flooding and/or erosion and sedimentation
problems;
E.
To encourage safe and efficient vehicular and pedestrian facilities
and circulation patterns and thereby avoid traffic hazards and congestion;
F.
To provide protection against fire, flood, explosion, hazardous materials
and other potential dangers associated with existing or proposed land
uses;
G.
To provide for energy-efficient patterns of development, the use
of solar and other renewable forms of energy and energy conservation;
H.
To encourage the use of aesthetic considerations in designing proposed
buildings and site improvements, thereby promoting attractive projects
that are compatible with the pattern of development within the subject
neighborhood, and promote the value of properties in the neighborhood
and the Town;
I.
To divide the Town into various zones, restricting and regulating
therein the location of construction, reconstruction, alteration and
use of land, buildings, structures and associated improvements for
residence, business and industrial and other uses, with a view toward
conserving the value of properties, encouraging a variety of housing
and economic development opportunities, and encouraging compatible
and appropriate uses of land within the various zones and throughout
the town;
J.
To protect residents from nuisances from sight and/or sound;
K.
To define the powers and the duties of the administrative officers
and bodies as provided herein.
