§ 7-704 Purposes in view. Such regulations shall be made in accordance
with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the
streets; to secure safety from fire, panic, floods and other dangers; to
promote health and the general welfare; to provide adequate light and
air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration
of population; to make provision for, so far as conditions may permit,
the accommodation of solar thermal, photovoltaics, wind, hydroelectric,
geothermal electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal energy, wave
energy, ocean thermal, farm waste electric generating equipment as
defined in paragraph (e) of subdivision one of section sixty-six-j of
the public service law and fuel cells; to facilitate the adequate
provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other
public requirements. Such regulations shall be made with reasonable
consideration, among other things, as to the character of the district
and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, and with a view to
conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate
use of land throughout such municipality.