§ 16.04.030. Purposes.

This title is adopted for the following purposes:

A.

To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the village;

B.

To guide the growth and development of the village;

C.

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 population;

D.

To protect the character and social and economic stability of the village and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development in the village;

E.

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

F.

To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions, in order to further the orderly layout and use of land; and to insure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land;

G.

To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the village and to insure appropriate development with regard to these natural features;

H.

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 land as established in the zoning ordinance of the village.

(Subdivision Ordinance dated 6-3-2003 § 1-3)