The purpose of this chapter is to:
(A) Provide for the health, safety and welfare, and promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace and good order, comfort, convenience and aesthetics of the county and its present and future inhabitants and businesses, to protect the tax base, to secure economy in governmental expenditures, to foster the state’s agricultural and other industries, to protect both urban and non-urban development, to protect and ensure access to sunlight for solar energy devices, to protect and ensure access to other alternative energy sources, to provide fundamental fairness in land use regulation and to protect the rights of bona fide property owners and the values of their property;
(B) Promote the efficient and orderly growth of the county;
(C) Establish adequate and accurate records of land subdivision; and
(D) Provide for adequate, safe and efficient public utilities and improvements, and to provide for other general community facilities and land for public places.
(Ord. passed 4- -2016)