This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the public, and to protect against the ill effects of urbanization;
(B) To guide the future growth and development of the city in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan;
(C) To ensure safety from fire, flood, and other danger, and to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue concentration of population;
(D) To guide public and private development in order to promote adequate transportation, water distribution, wastewater collection, drainage conveyance, and other public requirements and facilities;
(E) To provide for the circulation of traffic and pedestrians as required for the beneficial use of land and buildings and to reduce congestion throughout the city;
(F) To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for platting and replatting to further the orderly layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of platted land;
(G) To ensure that adequate public facilities and services are available and will have sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision or addition and that the community will be required to bear no more than its fair share of the cost of providing the facilities and services;
(H) To ensure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources, and enhance the stability and beauty of the community and the value of the land; and
(I) To provide for open spaces through the efficient design and layout of the land.
(Ord. 487, passed 7-18-2000; Am. Ord. 737, passed 7-20-2016)