These regulations are 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 municipality, in accordance with VISTA 2030, the City of Sierra Vista General 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.
E. To encourage the orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the City.
F. To protect and conserve both the value of land and the improvements throughout the City.
G. To guide public and private policy and action in order to ensure adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, and other public requirements and facilities.
H. To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings.
I. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions.
J. To prevent the pollution of air and water and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the City.
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 open spaces through the most efficient design and development patterns.
('76 Code, Art. 12-1) (Ord. 743, passed 4-10-86)