This chapter is 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 Official Master Plan.
C. To provide for adequate light, air and privacy, 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 and the social and economic stability of all parts of the City and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the City.
E. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the City and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
F. To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation and other public requirements and facilities.
G. To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic throughout the City, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways, 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 in order to further the orderly layout and use of the land and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land.
I. To ensure that public facilities are available and will have a 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.
L. To provide for adequate open spaces through the most efficient design and layout of the land.
M. To regulate the subdivision and/or development of land within any designated floodplain district in order to promote the general health, welfare and safety of the community. [Amended 9-20-1978 by Ord. No. 35-1978]
N. To require that each subdivision lot in flood-prone areas be provided with a safe building site with adequate access and that public facilities which serve such uses be designed, and installed at the time of initial construction, to preclude flooding. [Amended 9-20-1978 by Ord. No. 35-1978]
O. To protect individuals from buying lands which are unsuitable for use because of flood by prohibiting the improper subdivision and/or development of unprotected lands within the designated floodplain districts. [Amended 9-20-1978 by Ord. No. 35-1978]