This Ordinance shall be known as the "Land Subdivision Standards Ordinance" of the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The purpose of this Ordinance is to establish procedures and standards for the development and subdivision of land and the platting thereof to provide for efficient, adequate and sufficient streets with adequate widths and proper alignment and grades designed to promote the public safety, health and general welfare, to provide for suitable residential neighborhoods with adequate streets and utilities and appropriate building sites, to save unnecessary expenditures of public funds by reserving space for public lands and buildings and proper construction of streets and utilities, and to provide proper land records for the convenience of the public and for better identification and permanent location of real estate boundaries.