Protect and provide for the public health, safety and general welfare of the City of Pottsboro and its governing area.

Guide and stimulate future growth in accordance with a Pottsboro comprehensive plan.

Provide for adequate light, air, and privacy to secure safety from fire, flood, and other dangers from land overcrowding.

Protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the City and to encourage orderly and beneficial development.

Protect and conserve the value of land, the value of buildings and land improvements; and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of the land and buildings.

Guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, parking and other public requirements and facilities.

Provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of the land and buildings and the circulation of traffic, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways, and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines.

Establish reasonable standards of design and construction developments to facilitate orderly land use.

Insure that public facilities are planned and that they will have sufficient capacity to serve the area for which they were intended.

Prevent the pollution of air, streams, ponds, and lakes; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard domestic water supplies, and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout Pottsboro and its governing area.

To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the area and to insure appropriate development with regard to these natural features.

Provide for open spaces, by encouraging buffer areas, parks, and natural breaks to move from one density zoning district area to another.

To prevent "spot" and "strip" zoning.

Establish a general procedure for processing requests.