§ 1-14. Purpose and intent.

The city has established, adopted, and is guided by a number of goals, policies, and objectives to ensure that growth is managed properly and that orderly development occurs; that improvements to the existing environment are more purposefully directed; and that uncoordinated development is halted.

The city's most general goal is the development of an excellent community in which to live, work, or visit and to provide for the public safety and welfare. In order to meet this general goal, other primary goals, which affect the following, must be met:

(1)

Physical. Development of the city should be controlled in a manner which provides a safe, healthful, efficient, modern, attractive, and generally improved physical environment. To that end, the city should take advantage of the locally abundant natural resources without destroying them, in order to enhance the community identity.

(2)

Social. The city should afford its citizens opportunities for enrichment of their lifestyles and the stimulation of their abilities in a pleasant, healthy, safe, and harmonious environment.

(3)

Governmental. Municipal government should strive to provide services and direction to its constituency by the most efficient, economical, equitable, and egalitarian (i.e., full potential and social equality for all people) means possible. Its activities should encompass that which cannot or will not be adequately provided by the private sector.

(Ord. No. 86-2, § 1, 1-28-86)