8-3H-1: PURPOSE:
   A.   To provide the maximum in public safety and welfare in the development and design of building sites, roadways, and other service amenities;
   B.   To preserve and enhance the hillside landscape by encouraging the maximum retention of natural features, such as drainage swales, streams, slopes, ridgelines, crests of hills, rock outcroppings, vistas, and natural formations;
   C.   To provide safe ingress and egress for vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic to and within the hillside areas, while at the same time minimizing the scarring effects of hillside development; and
   D.   To use to the fullest extent the current understanding of the planning, design, and engineering professions and the natural sciences including botany, biology, ecology, soils and geology, to mitigate potential hazards, and to enhance the existing and future appearance and resources of the hillsides. (Ord. 389, 6-14-2000)