16.02.030: PURPOSE:
This title is adopted to regulate the division of land and to require the construction of certain prescribed improvements which are needed as a consequence of the division of land. The design, improvement, mapping and sale of subdivision lots and parcel map lots, and the division of land into large parcels are regulated by Nevada Revised Statutes chapters 278, 278A and 117 and by this title. Specific purposes are as follows:
   A.   To promote public health, safety, convenience and general welfare by ensuring development of land in a manner consistent with community objectives as set forth in the master plan and subarea plans;
   B.   To preserve and protect the natural environment and to safeguard against excessive stormwater runoff, erosion and flooding;
   C.   To ensure, at the time of land division, the provision of adequate water supply, storm drainage, sewage disposal, and other utilities, services and improvements needed as a consequence of any change or intensification of the land use;
   D.   To encourage conservation of natural resources, e.g., streambeds, ridgelines, scenic areas, currently assuring coordination with a system of open space and trails;
   E.   To facilitate, through orderly design and development, law enforcement, fire protection and other services;
   F.   To safeguard the general welfare by limiting the division of land in proposals for major development in isolated areas where provision of public services results in excessive costs and low efficiency of service;
   G.   To ensure that governmental maintenance costs are minimized by requiring timely and coordinated installation of improvements adequate in size and quality;
   H.   To provide road rights of way of adequate capacity for arterial traffic and, at the same time, design a system minimizing through traffic on residential streets;
   I.   To ensure that streets and roads are designed so as to minimize safety hazards to vehicles and their occupants as well as to pedestrians;
   J.   To assure a circulation pattern within the subdivision which is well integrated into the existing roadway pattern, and to provide the most beneficial access to and relationship between the uses of the land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the county;
   K.   To encourage an organized continuum of urban development by establishing conditions favoring agricultural uses in appropriate locations, thereby reducing taxpayer costs engendered by the need to provide utilities and public services to a scattered, inconvenient pattern of urban activities. (Ord. 209A, 2010)