§ II-1.002 PURPOSE.
   (A)   This title is established under the authority of SDCL Ch. 11-2 which empowers the County Commission to enact a zoning ordinance and to provide for its administration and enforcement for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, and general welfare of the county.
   (B)   These regulations are designed to carry out the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan, but especially to: lessen congestion in the streets; secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; preserve and promote the western heritage in historic buildings, sites, open space areas, town activities and events; treasure and manage the natural environment; promote health and the general welfare; provide adequate light and air; prevent the overcrowding of land; avoid undue concentration or scattering of population; and encourage a distribution of population or mode of land utilization that will facilitate the economical and adequate provision of transportation, water, drainage, sewerage, schools, parks, or other public requirements. These regulations have been made with reasonable consideration to the character and intensity of the various land uses and the need for public facilities and services that would develop from those uses. These regulations are necessary for the best physical development of the county. The regulations are intended to preserve and protect existing property uses and values against adverse or unharmonious adjacent uses by zoning all unincorporated land except those areas where joint zoning jurisdiction has been granted to a municipality.
(Ord. 14-01, passed 6-6-2014, Ch. 1, Art. 2)