The provisions of this title requiring certain design standards and subdivision improvements are the minimum requirements necessary to protect the public interest. It is recognized, however, that situations may arise where it may prove impracticable, impossible or unfair and oppressive to the subdivider to require literal compliance with all of the foregoing requirements and that some limited flexibility is necessary. Therefore, this chapter provides a procedure for the waiver or variance of one or more such standards or improvements in certain defined circumstances. It is intended that the waiver provision be used to delete a requirement and the variance provision to amend or lessen the impact of a requirement.
(`78 Code, § 16.32.010.) (Ord. 1522 § 2 (part), 1978.)