These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
A. To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the City citizens.
B. To guide the future growth and development of the City, in accordance with the General Plan.
C. To provide for adequate light, air and privacy and to secure safety from fire, flood and other danger and to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue congestion of population.
D. To protect the character, social stability and economic welfare of the community while encouraging orderly and beneficial development to all parts of the City.
E. To protect and conserve the value of land and the buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize conflicts among uses of land and buildings.
F. To guide public and private policy and actions in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, culinary and irrigation water, sewer, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, streets, curb and gutter, sidewalk, storm drainage and other public facilities needs.
G. To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the City, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion on the streets and highways, the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines.
H. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions to further the orderly layout and use of land and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monuments.
I. To ensure that public facilities are available with sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision.
J. To prevent the pollution of air, streams and ponds; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to 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.
K. To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the City and to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features. (Ord. 2001-02, 3-1-2001, eff. 3-1-2001)