The procedures and standards for the development and subdivision of real estate and for the surveying and platting thereof, prescribed by this Chapter, are found by Council to be necessary to promote the public safety, health, and general welfare, to provide for suitable residential neighborhoods with adequate streets and utilities and appropriate building sites, to save unnecessary expenditures of public funds by reserving space for public lands and buildings and by proper construction of streets and utilities, and to provide proper land records for the convenience of the public and for better identification and permanent location of real estate boundaries.