These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
(A) No owner, or agent of the owner, of any parcel of land located in a proposed subdivision shall transfer or sell any parcel before a plat of the subdivision has been approved by the Plan Commission, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and filed with the County Recorder;
(B) The division of any lot or any parcel of land into a subdivision, as defined in this chapter, by the use of metes and bounds descriptions for the purpose of sale, transfer, or lease resulting in the creation of one or more new building sites shall not be permitted. All described divisions shall be subject to all of the appropriate requirements of this chapter;
(C) To protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the town;
(D) To guide the future growth and development of the town in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan;
(E) 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 the population;
(F) To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the town and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings;
(G) 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;
(H) To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the town, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines;
(I) To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land;
(J) To ensure that public facilities and services are available concurrent with development and will have a 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 measures to ensure that the development provides its fair share of capital facilities needs generated by the development;
(K) To prevent the pollution of air, streams, and ponds; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the town in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of the land;
(L) To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the town and to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features; and
(M) 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 Chapter 156 of this code.
(Ord. 27, § 1.10.30, passed 4-16-1997) Penalty, see § 10.99