A. To implement the General Plan of the City of Sebastopol including the growth management policies.

B. To provide a definite and comprehensive zoning plan for development of the City and to guide, control, and regulate the future growth of the City in accordance with such plan and the City’s General Plan.

C. To protect the character and the social and economic stability of the land uses within the City, and to assure the orderly and beneficial development thereof.

D. To minimize disagreements between private individuals or groups or other disagreements which might result from incompatible or inappropriate adjacent land uses.

E. To maintain and enhance desirable characteristics of neighborhoods, to provide for open space for light and air, to prevent undue concentration of population, to promote orderly community development, and to otherwise promote the implementation of the Sebastopol General Plan.

F. To promote efficient use of land, thereby minimizing unnecessary cost of development. (Ord. 1111, 2018)