In the preparation of the Plan, the Commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of present conditions and future growth of the city with due regard to its relation to the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the city and its environs, which will with present and future needs best promote safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development, including among other things, adequate provision for traffic, safety from fire and other dangers, adequate provision for light and air, promotion of the healthful and convenient distribution of the population, promotion of good civic designs, efficient expenditures of public funds, and adequate provision of public utilities and other public requirements.
(1990 Code, § 5.357)