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The Wake Forest Zoning Ordinance, its regulations and districts, have been made in accordance with a comprehensive plan and are designed to:
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Lessen congestion in the streets;
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Secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers;
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Promote health and the general welfare;
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Provide adequate light and air.
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Prevent the overcrowding of land;
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Avoid undue concentration of population;
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Facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewage, and other public requirements;
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Minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas.
These regulations have been 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 the community.
In addition to zoning, regulations have been designed to:
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Restrict or prohibit dangers to health, safety and property due to water or erosion hazards or which result in damaging increases in erosion, flood heights and/or velocities.
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Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction.
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Control the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which are involved in the accommodation of flood waters;
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Control filling, grading and mineral extraction which may increase erosion or flood damage.
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Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards to other lands.
Please refer to the Wake Forest Zoning Map for detailed zoning district boundary information.
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