The City Council has adopted this chapter to promote the health,
safety, convenience, and general welfare of the public, to plan for
the future development of the community, and to accomplish the objectives
of the Code of Virginia and the City of Fredericksburg Comprehensive
Plan. This chapter is adopted in accordance with the following purpose
and intent statements:
A.
To provide for adequate light, air, convenience of access, and
safety from fire, flood, impounding structure failure, crime, and
other dangers;
B.
To reduce or prevent congestion in the public streets;
C.
To facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive, and
harmonious community;
D.
To facilitate the provision of adequate police and fire protection,
disaster evacuation, civil defense, transportation, water, sewerage,
flood protection, schools, parks, forests, playgrounds, recreational
facilities, and other public requirements;
E.
To protect against destruction of or encroachment upon historic
areas;
F.
To protect against overcrowding of land, undue density of population
in relation to community facilities existing or available, obstruction
of light and air, danger and congestion in travel and transportation,
or loss of life, health, or property from fire, flood, impounding
structure failure, panic, or other dangers;
G.
To encourage economic development activities that provide desirable
employment, including high wage jobs, and enlarge the tax base;
H.
To provide for the preservation of lands of significance for
the protection of the natural environment and to establish reasonable
provisions to protect surface water and groundwater;
I.
To promote the creation and preservation of affordable housing
suitable for meeting the current and future needs of the City, as
well as a reasonable proportion of the current and future needs of
the planning district within which the locality is situated;
J.
To implement the Fredericksburg Comprehensive Plan and any special
area plans adopted by the City;
K.
To assure the orderly subdivision of land and its development;
L.
To implement the General Assembly's stated intention for
localities to take action, through local regulations, to achieve the
following ends: that transportation systems be carefully planned;
that new community centers be developed with adequate highway, utility,
health, educational and recreational facilities; that the needs of
industry and business be recognized in future growth; that residential
areas be provided with healthy surroundings for family life; and that
the growth of the community be consonant with the efficient and economical
use of public funds.
