The purpose of site plan and development approval is to determine compliance with this chapter and city standards and specifications and to provide for the orderly development of the proper ingress and egress, sufficient highways and streets, the stability of land values, investments and the general welfare, and to prevent the impairment or depreciation of land values and development by the erection of structures, or additions or alterations thereto, without proper attention to siting, or to unsightly, undesirable or obnoxious appearances, and also to afford protection to related or adjoining residential properties by the construction of suitable masonry fences or walls.

(Code 1969, § 5.275; Code 1977, § 28-471; Ord. No. 23-Q, 9-28-1970)