(A) General purpose. This UDO is designated in accordance with a comprehensive plan for the purpose of promoting the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the city and the city’s municipal extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ) and to provide the economic, social and aesthetic advantages resulting from an orderly, planned use of land resources. This UDO shall govern the development and use of land and structures within the city corporate limits and the city’s ETJ. In particular, this UDO is designed to address the following objectives:
(1) Provide for the orderly growth and development of the area of the city and the municipal extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ);
(2) Minimize land use conflicts and encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the city;
(3) Conserve the value of buildings and property;
(4) Preserve and enhance the desirable features of the city’s appearance and character;
(5) Protect public investments and facilitate the adequate provision of schools, sewer, water, transportation, parks, open space and other public requirements;
(6) Promote the overall economic welfare of the city;
(7) Facilitate compatible development within the vicinity of the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point;
(8) Protect the natural environment and other valuable resources; and
(9) Minimize public and private losses due to flooding by permitting only that development within the floodplain which is appropriate in light of the probability of flood damage and which represents a reasonable social and economic use of land in relation to the hazards involved.
(B) Specific purposes. More specific purposes concerning zoning, land subdivision, signs, landscaping and buffering, watershed protection and flood damage prevention are delineated in the individual chapters of this UDO that include provisions relating to these particular subjects.
(Ord. passed 7-25-2011)