Article I. PURPOSE AND ENACTMENT  


The mayor and council of the City of Union Point, Georgia under the authority of Ga. Const. art. IX, § 2, ¶ 2-4, as amended, and for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, or the general welfare of the municipality and designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; to promote health and overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population; to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other requirements, hereby ordain and enact into law the official zoning ordinance for the incorporated area of the City of Union Point, for planning, zoning and subdivision control purposes and agreed upon through laws enacted by both the mayor and council of the City of Union Point, Georgia.