(A) This chapter is adopted to provide for the health, safety and welfare, and to promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort, convenience and aesthetics of the county and its present and future inhabitants and businesses, to protect the tax base, secure economy in governmental expenditures, foster the state’s agricultural and other industries, protect both urban and nonurban development and to protect property values.
(B) This chapter accomplishes these purposes by governing uses, density, open spaces, structures, buildings, energy efficiency, light and air, transportation, infrastructure, public facilities, vegetation and trees and landscaping.
(Prior Code, § 8-1-3)