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Pursuant to the authority conferred by the 1983 Georgia State Constitution, Article IX, Section II, Paragraph IV, and for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the present and future inhabitants of Banks County and the State of Georgia, including among other purposes the lessening of congestion in the streets; securing safety from fire, flood, panic, environmental hazards, and other dangers; promoting health and the general welfare; providing adequate light and air; preventing the overcrowding of land and avoiding both undue concentration of population and urban sprawl; facilitating the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage service, schools, parks, and other public requirements; promoting such distribution of population, classification of land uses, distribution of land uses and distribution of land development and utilization as will tend to facilitate and promote desirable living conditions and the sustained stability of neighborhoods; preserving buildings, structures and uses in areas having national, regional, state or local historic or environmental significance; protecting property against blight and depreciation; protecting persons and property against environmental hazards; securing economy in governmental expenditures; conserving the value of buildings and other property; and encouraging the most appropriate use of land, buildings and structures throughout Banks County, all in accordance with a land use plan for the development of the county, the board of commissioners hereby ordains and enacts into law the following articles and sections. |