(a) The purpose of this Planning and Zoning Code is to promote the public health and safety, and the convenience, comfort, prosperity, and/or general welfare of the inhabitants of the City by regulating the use of buildings, other structures, and land for residential, office, commercial, industrial, institutional, public, or other uses; to establish zoning districts of such classification and dimension as may be considered best to implement comprehensive planning; to regulate the subdividing and development of land by restricting the location, bulk, height, design, and land coverage of uses, buildings, and structures; to limit the density of population; and to provide regulations and procedures for the administration, interpretation, amendment, and enforcement of the Planning and Zoning Code.
(b) This Planning and Zoning Code is established to achieve the following objectives:
(1) To protect the character and the values of the residential, business, industrial, and recreational areas, and to assure their orderly and beneficial development;
(2) To provide for the reservation and dedication of land for safe and convenient pedestrian and vehicular circulation, and for open space for recreation and other public purposes;
(3) To provide for the construction of streets and utilities which will be adequate and economical to maintain;
(4) To ensure the accurate surveying of land and preparing and recording of plats; and
(5) To provide for the coordination of land development with the objectives of this Planning and Zoning Code and the Comprehensive Plan.
(Ord. 24-97. Passed 10-14-97.)