§ 153.004 PURPOSES.
   The purposes of these regulations are to protect and promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to provide for:
   (A)   Guidance of future growth and development in accordance with the comprehensive planning process;
   (B)   Adequate air, light, and privacy, and to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue congestion;
   (C)   Protection of the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the area, and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of all parts;
   (D)   Protection and conservation of the value of land, buildings, and other improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings;
   (E)   Guidance of public and private policy and action in order to assure adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, drainage, and other public requirements and facilities;
   (F)   Avoidance of scattered and uncontrolled subdivision of land that would result in the unnecessary imposition of an excessive expenditure of public funds for the supply of services that are a part of community infrastructure;
   (G)   Establishment of reasonable standards of design and minimum requirements for the creation, installation, and improvement of physical facilities which are, or will be, maintained for the benefit of general public;
   (H)   Establishment of reasonable standards and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions, in order to further the orderly layout and use of land; and to insure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land;
   (I)   Prevention of the pollution of air and water; provision of drainage facilities and the safeguarding of the water table; and the encouragement of wise use and management of natural resources in order to preserve the integrity, stability, natural beauty and topography, and the value of land;
   (J)   Administration of these regulations by defining the powers and duties of approval authorities; and the manner and form of making, filing and processing of any plat.
(Ord. - -, passed - -80)