The foregoing rules and regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To ensure sound, harmonious subdivision development and village growth which will become a permanent village asset by establishing minimum standards for subdivision design and construction;
(B) To secure and provide for the proper arrangement of streets or highways in addition to existing or planned streets or highways, or to the Official Thoroughfare Plan;
(C) To secure and provide adequate and convenient open spaces for vehicular and pedestrian traffic, utilities, access of firefighting apparatus, recreation, light and air;
(D) To provide for the avoidance of congestion of population;
(E) To provide common grounds of understanding and a sound working relationship between the village and the developer and to safeguard the interests of the homeowner, the subdivider and the village and its residents;
(F) To cause the cost of design and the installation of improvements in new platted subdivisions to be borne by the persons purchasing the lots rather than by any direct or indirect burden upon existing property owners beyond the limits of the subdivision who have already paid for the improvements servicing their property;
(G) To bring about compact development of both homes and public improvements without the delay often experienced through future use of assessment methods;
(H) To coordinate new subdivision design with the design of the village as a whole to allow for the proper capacity of all types of improvements on the basis of an orderly sequence of subdivisions as a part of community;
(I) To secure the rights of the public with respect to public lands and waters; and
(J) To provide for the accurate surveying of land, preparing and recording plats and the equitable handling of all subdivision plats by providing uniform approval procedures for observance by both the approving authority and subdividers.
(1997 Code, § 152.003)