These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
(a) To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the municipality;
(b) To guide the 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 land and undue congestion of population;
(d) To regulate the subdivision and/or development of flood-prone land areas in order to promote the general health, welfare and safety of the community;
(e) To require that each subdivision lot in flood-prone areas be provided with a safe building site with adequate access and that public facilities which serve such uses be designed and installed to preclude flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(f) To protect individuals from buying lands which are unsuitable for use because of flood hazards by prohibiting the subdivision and/or development of unprotected flood-prone lands;
(g) To protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the City and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the City;
(h) To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the City and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings;
(i) 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;
(j) To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the City, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways, and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate in the various uses of land and buildings, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines;
(k) To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivision and resubdivisions, in order to further the orderly layout and use of land; and to insure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land;
(l) To insure that public facilities are available and shall have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision;
(m) 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 City in order to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the community and the value of the land;
(n) To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the City and to insure appropriate development with regard to these natural features; and
(o) 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 land as established in the City Zoning Ordinance.
(Ord. 12-1982 Sec. 1.20. Passed 11-3-82.)