§ 1.1. Enactment clause.

In pursuance of the authority conferred by Article IX, Section IV, Paragraph II of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, 1976, and by the Municipal Home Rule Act of 1965, Georgia Laws 1965, page 298, as amended, and the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, conveniences, order, prosperity or general welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the City of Pearson; in accordance with a comprehensive plan designed to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land,, to avoid undue concentration of population, to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewage, schools, parks and other public requirements, being made with reasonable consideration, among other things, of the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses; and with a view to promoting desirable living conditions and sustained stability of neighborhoods, protecting property against blight and depreciation, securing economy in governmental expenditures, conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land, buildings and other structures throughout the City of Pearson, and in order to comprehensively amend the Pearson Zoning Ordinance, as adopted January 12, 1999, as amended, BE IT ORDAINED by the Commission of the City of Pearson, Georgia, as follows: