The Council finds and determines that the city is engaged in developing a General Plan within the city, including a street or circulation element, for the purposes of assuring ample transportation facilities, proper relationship of property to thoroughfares, dilution of gases which are the product of combustion in engines, distances between buildings on opposite sides of streets for the present and future, adequate access for fire-fighting equipment, traffic safety, and adequate light and air in and along the thoroughfares of the city; that to conserve the public interest and to assure the public safety and welfare it is imperative that certain streets and highways within the city be protected against encroachment by permanent physical improvements, the existence of which would make unnecessarily difficult or impractical the operation, retention, or creation of thoroughfares adequate in alignment, dimensions, and vision clearance to serve the public needs, safety, and welfare; and that to deal effectively with the practical problem thus presented, it is necessary to establish certain minimum building line setbacks on certain streets in the city.
('61 Code, § 10-4.101) (Ord. 84 C.S., passed 11-3-65)