PURPOSE
Mesa City Code § 11-1-2
in effect11-1-2: - PURPOSE
The purpose of this Ordinance is to implement the City's General Plan and to protect and promote the public health, safety, peace, comfort, convenience, prosperity and general welfare. More specifically, this Ordinance is intended to:
A. Provide a guide for the physical development of the City in a manner that progressively achieves the arrangement of land uses depicted in the General Plan, consistent with the goals and policies of the General Plan.
B. Promote combinations and mixtures of harmonious land uses, limit the effects of incompatible land uses, and do so in a manner that reduces transportation requirements, promotes livability, and raises the quality of life for residents, guests, students, workers, business owners, tourists and other visitors.
C. Foster a harmonious, convenient and workable relationship among land uses and ensure compatible infill development, consistent with the General Plan.
D. Support economic development and job creation.
E. Provide for the diverse housing needs of all economic segments of the community.
F. Promote high quality architecture and design.
G. Promote the stability of existing land uses that conform to the General Plan, protecting them from inharmonious influences and harmful intrusions.
H. Promote a safe and efficient traffic circulation system; foster the provision of adequate off-street parking and off-street loading facilities, bicycle facilities and pedestrian amenities, and support a multi-modal transportation system. Encourage improved connectivity between residential, commercial, educational, employment and recreational uses.
I. Facilitate the appropriate location of community facilities, institutions and parks and recreational areas.
J. Protect and enhance real property values.
K. Promote environmental quality and encourage development patterns that meet the following sustainability goals: improve air quality; improve energy conservation and renewable energy production; integrate land use and mobility; allow housing diversity; improve community health and safety; increase water conservation; and mitigate stormwater pollution.
L. Provide diverse settings, with a wide-range of employment, housing and commercial options and a variety of intensities of land uses.
M. Provide development options that are designed in an aesthetically pleasing manner, incorporate public spaces in manners that are integral to projects, and provide effective transitions between abutting parcels appropriate to the context of the circumstance.
N. Safeguard and enhance the appearance of the City.
O. Define duties and powers of administrative bodies and officers responsible for implementation of this Ordinance.
Source: City of Mesa, Arizona, Mesa City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/az/mesa/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COOR_TIT11ZOOR_ART1INPR_CH1INPR_11-1-2PUFetched: 11/1/2026