(A) The purpose of this chapter is to support and guide the proper subdivision of land within the jurisdiction of the town in order to promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the town.
(B) This chapter is designed to establish procedures and standards for the development and subdivision of real estate within the jurisdictional area of the town in an effort to, among other things, insure proper legal description, identification, monumentation and recordation of real estate boundaries and further, the orderly layout and appropriate use of the land; to provide safe, convenient and economic circulation of vehicular traffic; to provide suitable building sites which drain properly and are readily accessible to emergency vehicles; to assure the installation of improvements; to promote the eventual elimination of unsafe or unsanitary conditions; and to help conserve and protect the physical and economic resources of the town and its environs and to facilitate the further resubdivision of large tracts into smaller parcels of land.
(`94 Code, App. B, Art. I, § 2)