These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the city.
(B) To guide the future growth and development of the city, in accordance with the City's Comprehensive Plan.
(C) To protect the character and the economic stability of all parts of the city and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the city.
(D) To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions, in order to further the orderly layout and use of land; to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land.
(E) To provide for the proper location and widths of streets to facilitate traffic throughout the city, having particular concern to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways, and pedestrian traffic movements.
(F) To ensure that public facilities are available and will have sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision.
(G) To assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; prevent pollution of surface water; safeguard the water table and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the city in order to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the community and the value of the land.
(Ord. 96-05, passed 2-15-96)