The purpose of these regulations is to protect the safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of the city by regulating the layout and the construction of subdivisions, and ensuring that safe and sanitary conditions will be established. The powers, duties, and responsibilities of the planning director, planning commission, and city council under these regulations shall be exercised with due regard for the need to provide adequate access to all of the lots in a subdivision by roadways that will be safe and convenient for travel; for the need to minimize congestion in such roadways and on adjacent public roadways; for the need to reduce danger to life and property in the operation of motor vehicles; for the need to secure safety in cases of fire, flood, and other emergencies; for the need to ensure compliance with all other applicable requirements contained in this land development code; for the need to secure adequate provision for water, sewers, drainage, utility services, fire, police, and other city services; for coordinating the roadways in a subdivision with each other and with the roadways to which those in the proposed subdivision will interconnect; and for the need to provide adequate open space and recreation space. (Ord. 1110 § 2, 2002).