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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 4-201 Purpose.">
  <section prefix="§" num="4-201" heading="Purpose.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Intent – Guidance, interagency review, and ensuring compliance.">Site plan review is intended:<para num="(1)">to provide guidance to the applicant early in the design process;</para>
      <para num="(2)">to provide for interagency review; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">to ensure that the proposed development complies with this Code, the Subdivision Rules and Regulations, the Site Plan Review Manual, the Building, Fire and Related Codes, and other applicable guidelines and requirements.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Intent – Safe and functional, etc., development.">The recommendations of site plan review are intended to ensure safe, functional, efficient, and orderly development with high standards of design.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="General purposes.">In general, the purpose of the site plan review process is to:<para num="(1)">protect public health, safety, and welfare;</para>
      <para num="(2)">minimize adverse effects upon pedestrian and vehicular traffic;</para>
      <para num="(3)">ensure the design is safe, environmentally sound, aesthetically responsive, and protects properties, streets, and rights-of-way in the immediate vicinity, and the general public;</para>
      <para num="(4)">ensure compliance with the Comprehensive Master Plan and this Code; and</para>
      <para num="(5)">provide a consistent and uniform method of review.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
