The purpose of these regulations is to provide for the harmonious development of the City by protecting and providing for the public health, safety, convenience, and general welfare of the City of Harrison by establishing reasonable standards of design and procedures for approval of plats and subdivisions.
(a) Lessening congestion in the streets and highways by providing a proper arrangement in relation to existing or planned streets, highways, and driveways as well as to the City and Hamilton County Thoroughfare Plan.
(b) Providing for the safe and convenient pedestrian circulation throughout the City through the construction of sidewalks and walkways.
(c) Furthering the orderly layout and use of land by facilitating the further resubdivision of larger tracts into smaller parcels of land, avoiding undue concentration of population, and providing the most beneficial relationship between the use of land, roadways, buildings, and the natural environment.
(d) Assuring adequate, convenient, and appropriate open spaces for utilities, access of fire fighting apparatus and other emergency vehicles, recreation, light, and air as well as mitigate the effects of traffic, noise, and higher density.
(e) Safeguarding against the pollution of air, streams, rivers, and ponds; assuring the adequacy of drainage facilities; helping safeguard the water table; and encouraging the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the City.
(f) Facilitating adequate and timely provisions for transportation, water, sewage, schools, parks, playgrounds, and other public needs and requirements.
(g) Ensuring proper legal descriptions and the monumentation of subdivided land by providing for the proper location of lot lines and building setback lines, and to encourage innovative forms of development.
(h) Coordination of land development in accordance with the City's Zoning Code, and the City Comprehensive Plan.
(1) The provision of these regulations is made with reasonable consideration, among other things, of the character of the City, with a view of conserving the value of the buildings placed upon the land, by providing the best possible environment for human habitation, and by encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the City.