Why regulate subdivisions?
to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare to facilitate safe, orderly, and healthful community development to enable the sale or transfer of lots, and the recording thereof, by plat reference rather than the less efficient metes and bounds property descriptions to ensure that streets, utilities, schools, parks, open space, and other public facilities are adequate to serve the needs of those who will occupy and/or use the tract to prevent harm to persons and/or damage to land or property both within and outside the tract
