...welfare of the community. The legislative body of the cities and incorporated villages is empowered to regulate and restrict the height, number of stories...buildings and other structures, the percentage of a lot that may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population...

...Secretary of Commeree of the United States.64 The revised edition of January, 1923, reads as follows : "For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, the legislative body of cities and incorporated villages is hereby empowered to regulate and restrict the...

...one thousand nine hundred and one, (Pamphlet Laws twentyi, authorizing cities of the second class to regulate and restrict the height number of stories and size' of buildings and other structures and the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population and to regulate and...

...ADOPT ZONING REGULATIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. Grant of power. For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, the legislative body of cities and incorporated towns is hereby empowered to regulate and restrict the...

...population of one hundred thousand or more, all as shown by the last preceding United States census, may by ordinance regulate and restrict the height,...stories and size of buildings and other structures erected in the county, or the percentage of a lot that may be occupied by the building or structure,...

...industrial zoning in those areas. [1957, ch. 225, § 3, p. 505.] Section 50-401. Grant of power. — For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, the legislative body of a city of the first class, or of the second class, or of villages, is hereby empowered...

...and can receive no other interpretation. The legislative bodies of the cities are empowered to — "regulate and restrict the height, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures,17 the percentage of the lot that may be occupied, the size of the yards, courts, and other...

...general welfare. Often, a State's grant of zoning powers is spelled out in greater detail as follows: For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare, the legislative body of (cities, counties, towns, or townships) is hereby empowered to regulate and...

...welfare of the community," to adopt zoning ordinances regulating and restricting, among other things, "the height, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures," the size of building lots, and the overall population density. (Town Law, § 261.) Zoning ordinances are...

...welfare of the community, ' to adopt zoning ordinances regulating and restricting, among other things, "the height, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures,'' the size of building lots, and the overall population density (Town Law, § 261.) Zoning ordinances are...