This chapter is intended to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of existing and future residents of the town by:
(A) Implementing the goals, objectives, and policies of the Town Comprehensive Plan;
(B) Providing for adequate light, air, and open space;
(C) Preventing overcrowding of land to avoid undue concentration of population and to lessen congestion in the streets;
(D) Protecting and preserving scenic, historic, or ecologically sensitive areas and resources;
(E) Regulating the density and distribution of populations and the uses of building, structures, and land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, agriculture, forestry, conservation, airports and approaches thereto, water supply, sanitation, protection against floods, public activities, and other purposes;
(F) Facilitating the adequate provision or availability of transportation, police and fire protection, water, sewage, schools, parks and other recreational facilities, affordable housing, disaster evacuation, and other public services and requirements;
(G) Securing from fire, flood, and other dangers;
(H) Furthering the public welfare in any other regard specified by this governing body;
(I) Facilitating the creation of a convenient, attractive, and harmonious community;
(J) Encouraging the development of economically sound and stable municipalities and counties;
(K) Assuring the timely provision of required streets, utilities, and other facilities and services to new land developments;
(L) Assuring the provision of needed public open spaces, building sites, and new land developments through the dedication or reservation of land for recreational, educational, transportation, and other public purposes;
(M) Assuring, in general, the wise and timely development of new areas, and redevelopment of previously developed areas in harmony with the Comprehensive Plan;
(N) Fostering growth and development, and preserving our natural and cultural resources, always respecting the rights of the individual, including private property rights; and
(O) Protecting the public welfare from traffic density caused by cluster developments.
(Ord. 2012-06, § 1.5, passed 10-18-2012; Ord. 2012-21, passed 12-20-2012)