These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
A. Protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the community.
B. Guide the future growth and development of the City in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan.
C. Provide for adequate light, air and privacy, to secure safety from fire, flood and other danger, and to prevent the overcrowding of the land and undue congestion of population.
D. Protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the City and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of the community.
E. Protect and conserve the value of land throughout the City and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
F. Guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, and other public requirements and facilities.
G. Establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land.
H. Ensure public facilities and services are available concurrent with development, and that they will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision or development and that the community will be required to bear no more than its fair share of the cost of providing the facilities and services through requiring the subdivider or developer to pay fees, furnish land or cash in lieu of land, or establish mitigation measures to ensure the development provides its fair share of capital facilities needs generated by the development.
I. Prevent the pollution of air, streams and ponds; assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; safeguard the water table; and encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the City in order to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the City and the value of land.
(Ord. 04-841, 1-19-2004, eff. 2-1-2004)