Purpose

The purposes of this article are as follows:

• • (1) To provide developers and property owners the ability to establish, certify, purchase, sell and land development rights;

  • (2) To preserve sensitive resource areas such as groundwater reserves, wildlife habitat, agricultural lands, and public access to surface waters;

  • (3) To direct development away from sensitive resource areas to places better suited to increased levels of development such as established or proposed mixed use, commercial or residential centers; and

  • (4) To direct development to areas served by existing infrastructure such as established roadways, public water supply system, centralized sewer collection system, public transit and other utilities.

(Ord. No. 08-26, § 3, 10-20-2008; Ord. No. 11-02, § 2, 1-10-2011)