Title 16 SUBDIVISIONS*
Chapter 16.04 GENERAL PROVISIONS
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
6/3/03 § 1-3)