Section 16.04.030 Purpose.
A. The purposes of these regulations
are to promote the public health, safety, and general
welfare by regulating the subdivision of land; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to lessen
congestion in the streets and highways; to provide for adequate light, air, water supply, sewage
disposal, parks and recreation areas, ingress and egress, and other public requirements; to require
development in harmony with the natural environment; and to require uniform monumentation of
land subdivisions and transferring interests in real property by reference to plat or certificate of
survey.
B. Further, to support the purposes
of the Montana Subdivision and Platting Act, these
regulations are intended to promote:
1. The orderly development of the
jurisdictional area;
2. The coordination of roads within
subdivided land with other roads, both existing and
planned;
3. The dedication of land for roadways
and for public utility easements;
4. The provision of proper physical
and legal road access, including obtaining of necessary
easements;
5. The provision of adequate open
spaces for travel, light, air and recreation;
6. The provision of adequate transportation,
water, drainage, and sanitary facilities;
7. The avoidance or minimization of
congestion;
8. The avoidance of subdivision which
would involve unnecessary environmental
degradation;
9. The avoidance of danger or injury
by reason of natural hazard or the lack of water,
drainage, access, transportation or other public services;
10. The avoidance of excessive expenditure
of public funds for the supply of public services;
11. The manner and form of making
and filing of any plat for subdivided lands;
12. The administration of these regulations
by defining the powers and duties of approving
authorities including procedures for the review and approval of all plats of subdivisions covered
by these provisions. (Ord. 131 (part), 1998: prior code § 16.01.010C)
