II. - PURPOSE

The purpose of this ordinance is to regulate the subdivision of land within the corporate limits of the City of Southport and its extraterritorial planning area in order to preserve the public health, safety and welfare. The regulations included herein are designed to insure an adequately planned street system and to avoid sharp curves, hazardous intersections; to avoid overcrowding of the land and extreme concentration of the population; to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to provide for adequate water and sewage systems, schools, parks and playgrounds; to facilitate an orderly system for the design, layout and use of land; to insure the proper legal description and monumenting of subdivided land; and to provide for the resubdivision of large land parcels.