This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To insure sound, harmonious subdivision development and community growth, and to safeguard the interests of the home owner, the subdivider, the investor, and the city.
(B) To provide permanent assets to the locality and to the city.
(C) To prevent scattered development beyond existing public utilities and prevent excessive development costs.
(D) To assure the development of land for the highest possible use with all the necessary protection against deterioration and obsolescence.
(E) To provide common grounds of understanding and sound working relationship between the city and the developer.
(F) To avoid legal and other problems by requiring that subdivided land be properly monumented and recorded;
(G) To protect against injury or damage caused by fire, pollution, flooding, storm water runoff, or erosion and sedimentation;
(H) To reduce the cost of installing and maintaining adequate water mains, sanitary sewers, storm water sewers, and other utilities and services; and
(I) To provide for the acceptance of lands for public rights-of-way.
('71 Code, § 12-1-3) (Ord. 1447, passed 10-28-63; Ord. 3265, passed 8-14-00)