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A. The purpose of Chapter 17.04, Land Division, is to:

1. regulate the division of land and promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the residents of Kettle Falls in accordance with standards established by the state to prevent the overcrowding of land;

2. provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout Kettle Falls, with particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets and highways, the provision of suitable ingress and egress, and the creation of safe and adequate pedestrian and traffic movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings;

3. protect the character and the social and economic stability of Kettle Falls and encourage the orderly and beneficial development of the community through appropriate growth management techniques assuring the timing and sequencing of development;

4. ensure that public facilities, such as streets, water, sewerage, parks and recreation areas and other public services are sufficient and available concurrently with development;

5. ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of divided land; and

6. provide for the expeditious review and approval of proposed subdivisions which conform to the Comprehensive Plan, zoning standards and local plans as adopted under the Growth Management Act.