A. To support the rights of property owners to develop property while providing for the public health, safety and general welfare of the community;

B. To guide the future growth and development of the community in accordance with the goals, objectives and policies of the comprehensive plan;

C. To provide for adequate light, air and privacy, to secure safety from fire, flood and other dangers, and to prevent overcrowding of the land;

D. To protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the community and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of the community through appropriate growth management techniques assuring the timing and sequencing of development, promotion of infill development in existing neighborhoods and nonresidential areas with adequate public facilities or where adequate public facilities can easily be provided;

E. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the community and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings;

F. To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewer, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, open space and other public requirements and facilities;

G. To provide the most beneficial relationship between uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the community, with particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to 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 subdivision and resubdivision in order to further the orderly layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumentation of subdivided land;

I. To ensure that public facilities and services are available concurrent with development and will have 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 facilities and services through requiring the developer to pay fees, furnish land, or establish mitigation measures to ensure that the development provides its fair share of capital facilities needs generated by the development;

J. To prevent the pollution of air, streams, ponds and wetlands, 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 community in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and value of the land;

K. To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the community and to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features; and

L. 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 the city’s comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance. (Ord. 2463 § 3, 2003; Ord. 2045 § 9, 1995; Ord. 1314 § 3, 1983)