Article I. PREAMBLE AND ENACTMENT CLAUSE  


In pursuance of authority conferred by the Georgia General Planning and Zoning Enabling Act of 1957, No. 358, as amended, and for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the municipality; to encourage economically sound and stable land development; to assure the provisions of required streets, utilities, and other facilities and service to land development; to assure the adequate provisions of safe and convenient traffic access and circulation, both vehicular and pedestrian, in land development; to assure the provisions of needed public open spaces and public building sites in land development through the dedication or reservation of land for recreational, educational, and other public purposes; and to assure that land developed in conformity with the Comprehensive Plan of Meriwether County, the County Commissioners of Meriwether County, Georgia, do ordain and enact into law the following articles and sections.