§ 4-201. Purpose.

(a) Intent – Guidance, interagency review, and ensuring compliance.

Site plan review is intended:

(1) to provide guidance to the applicant early in the design process;

(2) to provide for interagency review; and

(3) to ensure that the proposed development complies with this Code, the Subdivision Rules and Regulations, the Site Plan Review Manual, the Building, Fire and Related Codes, and other applicable guidelines and requirements.

(b) Intent – Safe and functional, etc., development.

The recommendations of site plan review are intended to ensure safe, functional, efficient, and orderly development with high standards of design.

(c) General purposes.

In general, the purpose of the site plan review process is to:

(1) protect public health, safety, and welfare;

(2) minimize adverse effects upon pedestrian and vehicular traffic;

(3) ensure the design is safe, environmentally sound, aesthetically responsive, and protects properties, streets, and rights-of-way in the immediate vicinity, and the general public;

(4) ensure compliance with the Comprehensive Master Plan and this Code; and

(5) provide a consistent and uniform method of review.