The general purpose of this Code is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to implement the goals, objectives, and policies of the City of Pompano Beach Comprehensive Plan. More specifically, this Code is intended to do the following, consistent with the goals and policies of the comprehensive plan:
A. Preserve and enhance present advantages and overcome present handicaps that exist in the city;
B. Encourage the most appropriate use of land, water, and resources;
C. Deal effectively with future problems that may result from the use and development of land;
D. Facilitate the adequate and efficient provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, recreational facilities, housing, and other requirements and services;
E. Conserve, develop, utilize, and protect natural and historic resources;
F. Maintain and protect the character and stability of the community and its established neighborhoods;
G. Encourage compact, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented, and transit-oriented development;
H. Establish an overall sense of place of the city, its downtown area, and its activity center;
I. Promote sustainable development and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging less auto-dependent development patterns, renewable energy use, energy conservation, water conservation, vegetation, urban agriculture, recycling and waste reduction, and hazard-resilient development; and
J. Establish comprehensive, consistent, effective, efficient, and equitable standards and procedures for the review and approval of land development that recognize and respect the rights of landowners and consider the interests of the city's citizens.
(Ord. 2012-64, passed 9-11-12)