263 – Purposes in View.

§  263. 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, flood, panic and other dangers; to
  promote health and 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 practice of
  forestry; 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.