8A.3 Purposes

These regulations are adopted for the following purposes: (a) To protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare of Bear River City. (b) To guide the future growth and development of Bear River City, in accordance with the Comprehensive or General Plan. (c) To provide for adequate light, solar access, open space, air, and privacy, to secure safety from fire, flood, landslides and other geologic and natural hazards, and other danger, and to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue congestion of population. (d) To protect the rural character (i.e. rights of farming) and the social and economic stability of all parts of Bear River City and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the municipality. (e) To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the municipality and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings. To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, streets, and other public requirements and facilities. (g) To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic, throughout the municipality, 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. (h) 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 insure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land. To insure that public facilities are available and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision. To prevent the pollution or degradation of air, streams, and ponds; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table; to minimize site disturbance and the removal of native vegetation and soil erosion; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the municipality in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of the land. (k) To preserve the natural and rural agricultural beauty and topography of Bear River City and to insure appropriate development with regard to these valued natural and historical features.