These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
(a) To protect and provide for the public health, safety and welfare.
(b) To guide future growth and development of the City in accordance with the Comprehensive 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 and conserve the value of land throughout the City and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
(e) To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, and other public requirements and facilities.
(f) To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and re- subdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumentation of subdivided land.
(g) To assure that public facilities and services are available concurrently with development and with sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision and that the community will be required to bear no more than its fair share of the cost of providing the facilities and services through requiring the developer to pay fees, furnish land, or establish mitigation measures to ensure that the development provides its fair share of capital facilities needs generated by the development.
(h) To prevent the pollution of air, streams, and ponds; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard water quality; and to encourage wise management and use of natural resources throughout the municipality in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of the land.
(i) To provide for open spaces through the most efficient design and layout of the land, including the use of average density in providing for minimum width and area of lots, while preserving the density of development as established in the zoning ordinances of the City.
(j) To remedy problems associated with inappropriately subdivided lands, including premature subdivision, excess subdivision, partial or incomplete subdivision, scattered and low-grade subdivision.
(Ord. 2004-40. Passed 5-24-04.)