There are hereby established subdivision standards and procedures for all the incorporated area of the City. These are part of a long-range general plan to guide and facilitate orderly, beneficial growth of the community and to promote the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare. More specifically, but not in limitation, the purpose of these standards and procedures is to provide for:
A. 
The coordination and beneficial design of streets.
B. 
Adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light and air.
C. 
A distribution of population and traffic which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare.
D. 
Assurance, insofar as possible, for purchasers of lots that they are buying a commodity which is suitable for their development and use.
E. 
Adequate public services in a healthy, safe, efficient and assured manner.
This chapter is known and may be cited as the "Subdivision Ordinance of the City of Lexington, Virginia," and is authorized pursuant to the provisions of Land Subdivision and Development, § 15.1-465 et seq. of the Code of Virginia.[1]
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Editor's Note: See now Code of Virginia, § 15.2-2240 et seq.