A. - Policy

A. POLICY

This ordinance, including the zoning map is based on comprehensive planning studies and is intended to carry out the objective of a sound, stable, and desirable development. It is recognized that casual change or amendment to the ordinance would be detrimental to the achievement of that objective, and it is therefore declared to be the public policy to amend this ordinance only when one (1) or more of the following conditions prevail:

1. Error. There is a manifest error in the ordinance;

2. Change in conditions. Changed or changing conditions in a particular area, or in the metropolitan area generally, make a change in the ordinance necessary and desirable.

3. Increase in need for sites for business or industry. Increased or increasing needs for business or industrial sites, in addition to sites that are available, make it necessary and desirable to rezone an area or to extend the boundaries of an existing district;

4. Subdivision of land. The subdivision or imminent subdivision of open land into urban building sites makes reclassification necessary and desirable.