Pursuant to the authority conferred by the 1983 Georgia State Constitution, Article IX, Section II, Paragraph IV, and for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the City of Sky Valley and the State of Georgia, including among other purposes the lessening of congestion in the streets; securing safety from fire, flood, panic, and other dangers; promoting health and the general welfare; providing adequate light and air; preventing the overcrowding of land and avoiding both undue concentration of population and urban sprawl; facilitating the adequate provision of water, sewerage service, parks, and other public requirements; promoting such distribution of population, classification of land uses, distribution of land uses and distribution of land development and utilization as will tend to facilitate and promote desirable living conditions and the sustained stability of neighborhoods; improving the aesthetic appearance of the City; protecting property against blight and depreciation; securing economy in governmental expenditures; conserving the value of property; and encouraging the most appropriate use of land, structures throughout the City of Sky Valley.

The Council of the City of Sky Valley hereby ordains and enacts into law the following Articles and Sections.