The Planning Board declares that these regulations for the subdivision of land for various purposes have been promulgated to provide for the orderly growth and coordinated development of the municipality and to assure the comfort, convenience, safety, health and welfare of its people and, further, that the approval of such subdivisions shall be based on the following considerations:
A. 
Conformance with the various parts of the Master Plan and Chapter 240, Zoning.
B. 
Recognition of a desirable relationship to the general land form, its topographic and geologic character, to natural drainage and surface water runoff and to the groundwater table.
C. 
Recognition of desirable standards of subdivision design, including adequate provision for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, for surface water runoff and for suitable building sites for the land use contemplated.
D. 
Provision for such facilities as are desirable adjuncts to the contemplated use, such as parks, recreation areas, school sites, firehouses and off-street parking.
E. 
Preservation of such natural assets as ponds, streams, shrubs and trees and of the general scenic beauty of the municipality.
F. 
Provision of adequate utility services.