14-1-2 PURPOSE

These regulations are adopted for the following purposes: 1. To protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the municipality. 2. To guide the future growth and development of the municipality, in accordance with the General Plan. 3. 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. 4. To protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the municipality and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the municipality. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. To insure that public facilities are available and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision. 10. 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 municipality in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of the land. 11. To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the municipality and to insure appropriate development with regard to these natural features. 12. 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 demunity of land as established in the zoning ordinance of the municipality.