This chapter is intended to guide the growth and development of the city in accordance with the goals, objectives, and strategies stated within the Kokomo Comprehensive Plan and for the following purposes:
(A) Provide guidance of future growth and development in accordance with the comprehensive plan and applicable ordinances.
(B) Establish reasonable standards and procedures for subdivisions and re-subdivisions, in order to further the orderly layout and use of land.
(C) Protect the character and social and economic stability of all parts of the jurisdiction.
(D) Encourage orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the jurisdiction.
(E) Protect and conserve the value of land, buildings and other improvements to land.
(F) Avoid scattered, illogical, and uncontrolled subdivisions of land that would result in the imposition of an excessive expenditure of public funds for the distribution or supply of infrastructure and/or services.
(G) Ensure proper legal descriptions, legal recording, and monumenting of subdivided land.
(H) Prevent the pollution of air, water and soil.
(I) Ensure the provision of drainage facilities, safeguarding of the water table, and protection from flooding or causing increased risk of flooding.
(J) Encourage the protection of natural resources in order to preserve the integrity, stability, natural beauty, topography, and the value of land.
(K) Plan for a balance between land uses, natural resources, open spaces, recreation, and public ways that is beneficial to the community as a whole, both current and in the future.
(L) Cause the cost of design and installation of improvements in new, platted subdivisions to be borne by the persons purchasing the lots, and to avoid any direct or indirect burden placed upon adjacent subdivision(s) or the community as a whole.
(M) Cause the petitioner to bear all costs associated with the approval process, development process, and inspection process.
(Ord. 6405, passed 4-10-06)