The Unified Development Ordinance is adopted for the purposes of:
- Protecting and promoting public health, safety, and general welfare;
- Implementing adopted plans and policies;
- Enhancing residents’ quality of life;
- Protecting the character of established residential neighborhoods;
- Maintaining economically vibrant as well as visually attractive business and commercial areas;
- Retaining and expanding the Town’s business and employment base;
- Promoting mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented development patterns;
- Accommodating pedestrian, bicycle, and transit use;
- Maintaining orderly and compatible development patterns that promote an appropriate mix of land uses and protect and conserve property values;
- Ensuring adequate light, air, privacy, and access to property;
- Promoting environmentally responsible development practices;
- Promoting rehabilitation and reuse of older buildings;
- Maintaining a range of housing choices and options;
- Establishing clear and efficient development review and approval procedures; and
- Accommodating the orderly and beneficial development of all parts of the Town in accordance with the preceding purposes.