§ 50-492. Purpose.

The regulation of the subdivision of land is intended to aid in the coordination of land development in incorporated municipalities and in the county in accordance with orderly physical patterns; to discourage haphazard, premature, uneconomic or scattered land development; to ensure safe and convenient traffic control; to encourage development of economically stable and healthful communities; to ensure adequate utilities; to prevent periodic and seasonal flooding by providing protective flood control and drainage facilities; to provide public open space for recreation; to ensure land subdivision with installation of adequate and necessary physical improvements; to ensure that the citizens and taxpayers of incorporated municipalities and the county will not have to bear the costs resulting from haphazard subdivision of land and the lack of authority to require installation by the developer of adequate and necessary physical improvements; to ensure to the purchaser of land in a subdivision that necessary improvements of lasting quality have been installed; and to serve as one of the several instruments of comprehensive plan implementation authorized by F.S. ch. 163.

(1991 LDR ch. 71, art. 1)