§ 107-1. Title and purpose.

(a)

This chapter shall be known and may be cited and referred to as "The Dysart Platting and Subdivision Ordinance."

(b)

The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the city and these regulations are designed to lessen congestion in the streets and highways; to further the orderly layout and use of land; to secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; to facilitate adequate provision for transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds and other public requirements; to facilitate the further subdivision of larger tracts into smaller parcels of land. These regulations are made with reasonable consideration, among other things, of the character of the city with a view of conserving the value of the buildings placed upon land, providing the best possible environment for human habitation, and for encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the city as it relates to the limit of service existing municipal capital improvement commitments, either planned or existing for the city and the unincorporated area of Tama and Benton Counties within the extra territorial jurisdiction area.

(c)

The further purposes of this chapter are:

(1)

To provide for accurate, clear, and concise legal descriptions of real estate in order to prevent, wherever possible, land boundary disputes or real estate title problems.

(2)

To provide for a balance between the land use rights of individual landowners and the economic, social, and environmental concerns of the public when the city is developing or enforcing land use regulations.

(3)

To provide for uniform procedures and standards for the platting of land while allowing the widest possible latitude for the city to establish and enforce ordinances regulating to the division and use of land, within the scope of, but not limited to, I.C.A. chs. 364, 414, 354, 331 and 335 and the provisions of this Code.

(4)

To encourage orderly community development and provide for the regulation and control of the extension of public improvements, public services, and utilities, the improvement of land, and the design of subdivisions, consistent with the city's approved comprehensive plan.

(Prior Code, § 122.01)