The purpose of this chapter is to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens to be accomplished so as to:
1. Prevent traffic congestion and hazards.
2. Provide for proper traffic safety by preserving the public thoroughfares for the unimpaired movement of pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular traffic.
3. Provide for attractive, secure, properly lighted, and well screened off-street parking and loading facilities.
4. Assure the mobility and access of emergency vehicles.
5. Provide for appropriately designed parking and loading facilities in proportion to the needs generated by the varying types of land use in order to maintain the character of the City environment.
6. Minimize the negative visual impacts of large expanses of parking and loading areas by reducing glare from parking lots through open space and landscaping in and around parking areas.