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the provisions and standards contained in building and housing codes, zoning ordinances, the Comprehensive Plan,Official Map and land use plan,and the capital budget and program of the city. 4. Land that has been subdivided prior to the effective date of these regulations should, whenever possible, be brought within the scope of these regulations to further the purposes of regulation(s) identified in Section 1.3. Section 15.01.03. Purposes These regulations are adopted for the following purposes: 1. To protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the city. 2. To guide the future growth and development of the city in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan. 3. 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. 4. To protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the city 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 non-residential areas with adequate public facilities, to assure proper urban form and open space separation of urban areas, to protect environmentally critical areas and areas premature for urban development. 5. To 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. 6. To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, and other public requirements and facilities. 7. To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the city, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines. 8. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and re-subdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land. 9. To ensure that public facilities and services are available concurrent with development and will have a 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 the 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. - 140 - Batesville Subdivision Regulations