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7.1. Purpose

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This article establishes the minimum standards for the design and improvement of land subdivision and land splits to:

A. Facilitate the orderly growth and harmonious development of the City and to protect and promote public health, safety, and welfare.

B. Provide lots and parcels of sufficient size and appropriate design for the purposes for which they are to be used;

C. Protect the natural environment and scenic beauty of Sedona by promoting the use of good design, landscape architecture, and civil engineering to preserve and enhance natural topographic features, watercourses, drainage ways, floodplains, slopes, ridgelines, rock outcrops, native vegetation, and trees and to control erosion and minimize runoff;

D. Provide safe ingress and egress for vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic;

E. Encourage the placement of roads and driveways so that they follow natural topography wherever possible, and minimize cutting and grading;

F. Ensure safe and efficient traffic circulation through coordinated and connected street systems with relation to major thoroughfares, adjoining subdivisions, adjoining streets, and public facilities;

G. Provide adequate water supply, sewage disposal, storm drainage and other utilities and facilities;

H. Provide for adequate sites for schools, recreation areas, access to public lands (trailheads), and other public purposes;

I. Facilitate the transfer of lands having accurate legal descriptions and to establish and assure the rights, duties and responsibilities of subdividers and developers with respect to land development;

J. Ensure that the costs of providing the necessary rights-of-way, street improvements, utilities and public areas and facilities for new developments are borne fairly and equitably; and

K. Encourage the clustering of dwellings and other structures to preserve open space, preserve the natural terrain, minimize impervious area and resulting water runoff, minimize adverse visual impacts, minimize public infrastructure costs, and prevent public safety hazards;

L. Provide a common ground of understanding and an equitable working relationship between public and private interests, so that both independent and mutual objectives can be achieved in the subdivision of land.