This chapter is based upon the City Master Plan adopted in the year 2000 and is intended to promote the health, safety, and general welfare: to encourage the use of lands in accordance with their character and adaptability; to limit the improper use of land; to avoid overcrowding of population; to provide adequate light and air; to lessen congestion on the public streets and roads; to reduce hazards to life and property; to facilitate adequate provision for a system of transportation, sewage disposal, safe and adequate water supply, education, recreation, and other public improvements; and to conserve expenditure of public funds for public improvements and services to conform with the most advantageous use of land, resources, and properties, and with reasonable consideration of, among other things, the character of each district, its peculiar suitability for particular uses, the conservation of property values and natural resources, and the general and appropriate trend and character of the land, buildings, and population development as studied and recommended by the Planning Commission and endorsed within regulations enacted by the City Council.
(Ord., § 104, passed 6-11-2002)