The purposes of this chapter are:
(A) To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the town;
(B) To guide the future development and renewal of the town according to the Comprehensive Plan and related policies;
(C) To provide for the safety, comfort and soundness of the developed environment and related open spaces;
(D) To enhance and preserve the compatibility, character, economic stability and orderliness of development through reasonable design standards;
(E) To guide public and private policy and action to provide adequate and efficient public and private facilities; and
(F) To promote the most esthetically pleasing and beneficial interrelationship between land uses and to conserve natural resources such as natural habitats, woodlands, open spaces and energy and natural growth sources both during and after development.
(2004 Code, § 4-103)