These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To protect and provide for the public health, safety, comfort, morals, and general welfare of the city;
(B) To secure adequate light, air, and convenience of access; to secure safety from fire, flood, and other danger; and to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue congestion of population;
(C) To protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the city by encouraging: infill development in existing neighborhoods; the installation of adequate public facilities; proper urban form and open space separation; and protection of environmentally critical areas;
(D) To protect and conserve property values throughout the city and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land;
(E) To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, and other public requirements and facilities;
(F) To provide a beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the city, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to the various use of land and buildings, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets;
(G) To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land;
(H) To ensure that public facilities and services are available to support development and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision, through requiring the developer to ensure that the development provides its share of capital facilities needs generated by the development;
(I) To prevent the pollution of air and water; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table; to encourage the responsible use and management of natural resources to preserve the stability of the community and to protect the value of existing development;
(J) To provide for open spaces through efficient design and layout, while complying with the comprehensive plan and zoning regulations; and
(K) To remedy problems associated with inappropriately subdivided lands, including partial or incomplete subdivision and inferior subdivision.
(Prior Code, § 155.003) (Ord. 0-98-0026, passed 12-21-1998)