§ 1.2. Purpose and Intent

This UDC is adopted to:

• Protect, promote, improve and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the City;

• Ensure the safe, orderly and efficient development and expansion of the City in accordance with and pursuant to its Comprehensive Master Plan;

• Conserve, develop, protect and utilize natural resources, in keeping with the public interest;

• Prevent the overcrowding of land and avoid undue concentration or diffusion of population;

• 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;

• Provide for open space;

• Minimize pollution of air and water, assure the adequacy of drainage facilities, safeguard water resources and preserve the integrity and aesthetic quality of the community;

• Lessen congestion in the streets and provide convenient, safe and efficient circulation for vehicular and pedestrian traffic and any other form of circulation; and

• Facilitate the adequate and efficient provision of transportation, water, wastewater, schools, parks, public safety and recreational facilities, and other public facilities and services.