A. Protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the city;

B. Guide the future growth and development of the city in accordance with the general plan;

C. Provide for adequate light, air, and privacy, to secure safety from fire, flood, landslides and other geologic hazards and other dangers, and to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue congestion of population;

D. Protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the city and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the municipality;

E. Protect and preserve 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;

F. 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;

G. Provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic and public transportation throughout the city, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets, highways, and public transportation, 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;

H. Establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions, records of survey, replats, and boundary line adjustments, in order to further the orderly layout and use of land; and to insure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land;

I. Ensure that public facilities are available and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the city’s population and the proposed subdivision, replat, or boundary line adjustment;

J. Prevent the pollution or degradation of air, streams, and ponds; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table; to minimize site disturbance, removal of native vegetation, and soil erosion; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the municipality in order to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the value of the land;

K. Preserve the natural beauty and topography of the city and to insure appropriate development with regard to these natural features;

L. Provide for open spaces through the most efficient design and layout of the land, including the use of flexible density or cluster-type zoning in providing for minimum width and area of lots, while preserving the density of land as established in this title and Title 17;

M. Minimize the number of boundary line disputes in the city and to eliminate existing property line gaps and property line overlaps; and

N. Avoid poorly planned developments that: