§ 157.004 PURPOSE.
   The purpose of these regulations is to protect and promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the residents in the jurisdiction of the APC, and to:
   (A)   Guide future growth and development in accordance with the comprehensive planning process;
   (B)   Protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the area and encourage;
   (C)   Orderly and beneficial development of all parts;
   (D)   Protect and conserve the value of land, buildings and other improvements upon the land and minimize the conflicts among the uses of land or buildings;
   (E)   Avoid 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 the community infrastructure; and
   (F)   Preserve prime farmland soils.
(Ord. 98-25, passed 12-21-1998)