The regulations of this Land Development Code are intended to implement the City of Hudson Comprehensive Plan, as amended, and more specifically are intended to:
(a) Promote the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, and general welfare;
(b) Secure safety of persons and property from fire, flood, and other dangers, and to secure adequate open spaces for light, air, and amenity;
(c) Conserve and stabilize property values through the most appropriate uses of land in relation to one another;
(d) Preserve and protect forests and woodlands, existing trees and vegetation, agricultural lands, floodplains, stream corridors, wetlands, and other sensitive environmental areas from adverse impacts of urban and suburban development;
(e) Facilitate the economic provision of adequate public facilities such as transportation, water supply, sewage disposal, drainage, electricity, public schools, parks, and other public services and requirements;
(f) Prevent congestion in travel and transportation, reduce community dependence on automobile travel, and encourage trip consolidation;
(g) Preserve and protect the architecture, history, and small-town character of the historic village core;
(h) Encourage innovative residential development so that growing demand for housing may be met by greater variety in type, design, and layout of dwellings, and by conservation and more efficient use of open space ancillary to such dwellings;
(i) Encourage nonresidential development that preserves and protects the character of the community, including its natural landscape, and that minimizes objectionable noise, glare, odor, traffic and other impacts of such development, especially when adjacent to residential uses or to the historic village core;
(j) Manage overall community growth, including population and employment growth, to benefit the community and to encourage fiscally efficient and orderly development; and
(k) Encourage a balance of residential and non-residential uses and development in the community so that future growth occurs in a fiscally prudent manner.
(Ord. 18-93. Passed 10-15-19.)