The purposes of this title shall be to promote and protect the public health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience, and general welfare, including the following more particularly specified purposes:
A. To further promote, and accomplish the objectives, policies, and programs of the Cupertino General Plan;
B. To protect the character and the social and economic stability of agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial and other areas within the City; to assure the orderly and beneficial development of such areas; and more particularly, to lessen congestion and assure convenience of access; to secure safety from fire, flood and other dangers; to provide for adequate light, air, sunlight and environmental amenities; to promote and encourage conservation of scarce resources; to prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population, to facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive and harmonious community; to attain a desirable balance of residential and employment opportunities; to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewage, drainage facilities, schools, parks and other public developments; to protect the food supply; to conserve property values; to promote efficient urban design and arrangement; and to secure economy in governmental expenditures;
C. To mitigate the negative impacts to public safety resulting from the location of buildings, and the uses of buildings and of land, adjacent to streets and highways while at the same time facilitating existing or prospective traffic movements throughout the City.
(Ord. 2085, § 2 (part), 2011; Ord. 1601, Exh. A (part), 1992)