10-1-2 PURPOSE
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1.
This Ordinance is adopted to provide for the health, safety, and welfare, and promote the
prosperity, peace and good order, comfort, convenience, aesthetics, and welfare of the City of
Wendover and its present and future inhabitants and businesses, to secure safety from fire and other
danger, the lessening of congestion on the streets or roads, provide adequate light and air, classify
land uses and distribute land development and utilization, protect the tax base, to secure economy
in governmental expenditures, to foster the tax base, to secure economy in governmental
expenditures, to foster commercial and agricultural growth, to protect both urban and non-urban
development, to protect property and protection of the environment.
2.
To accomplish the purposes of this chapter, the City of Wendover may enact all ordinances,
resolutions, and rules and may enter into other forms of land use controls and development
agreements that they consider necessary or appropriate for the use and development of land within
the City, including ordinances, resolutions, rules, restrictive covenants, easements, and
development agreements governing uses, density, open spaces, structures, buildings, energy
efficiently, light and air, air quality, transportation and public or alternative transportation,
infrastructure, street and building orientation and width requirements, public facilities, and height
and location of vegetation, trees and landscaping, unless expressly prohibited by law.