This chapter shall hereafter be known, cited
and referred to as the "Subdivision Ordinance of the Town of Millville,
Delaware."
This chapter shall apply to all subdivision
of land, as defined herein, located within the corporate limits of
the Town of Millville. This chapter shall become effective upon adoption
by the Millville Town Council and shall remain in effect until amended
or rescinded by the Council.
This chapter is adopted for the following reasons:
A. To protect and provide for the public health, safety,
and general welfare of the municipality.
B. To guide the future growth and development of the
municipality, in accordance with the Municipal Development Strategy,
which is also sometimes known as and referred to as the "Comprehensive
Plan" for the Town.
C. To provide for adequate light, air, and privacy; to
secure safety from fire, flood, and other danger; and to prevent overcrowding
of the land and undue congestion of population.
D. To protect the character and social and economic stability
of all parts of the municipality and to encourage the orderly and
beneficial development of all parts of the municipality.
E. To conserve and protect the value of land throughout
the municipality and the value of buildings and of improvements upon
the land, and to minimize conflicts of land uses and buildings.
F. To guide public and private policy and action in order
to provide adequate and efficient traffic circulation, parks, playgrounds,
recreation, and other public requirements and facilities.
G. To provide the most beneficial relationship between
land uses and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout
the municipality with particular attention paid to the avoidance of
congestion in the streets and highways, and the pedestrian traffic
movements appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings, and
to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building
lines.
H. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedure
for subdivisions and resubdivisions, in order to further the orderly
layout and use of land, and to insure proper legal descriptions and
monumenting of subdivision land.
I. To insure that the subdivider provides adequate public
facilities of sufficient capacity to serve the proposed development
where such facilities are unavailable or lack sufficient capacity
to handle increased development.
J. To prevent the pollution of air, streams, and ponds;
to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water
table; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources
throughout the municipality in order to preserve the integrity, stability,
and beauty of the community and the value of the land.
K. To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the
municipality and to insure appropriate development with regard to
these natural features.