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(7) To provide adequate open space, light, solar rights, air, <br />privacy, and recreational area, and to prevent overcrowding <br />of the land and undue congestion of the population; <br />(8) To provide safety from fire, flood, natural disasters and <br />other dangers; <br />(9) To provide a reasonable, fair, and uniform application of <br />standards of design and procedures for the subdivision and <br />platting of land; to ensure proper legal descriptions and <br />monumenting of subdivided land; <br />(10) To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the county; <br />• and <br />(11) To provide for safe and sanitary sewage disposal, adequate <br />potable water supplies and the protection of the groundwater <br />system. <br />Section 913.05 Definitions See Chapter 901. <br />Section 913.06 Compliance Required; Exceptions <br />(1) Unlawful Activity. It shall be unlawful and subject to the <br />penalties provided herein for any person to: <br />(A) Create a subdivision without first complying with the <br />provisions of this chapter and filing a plat approved by <br />the board of county commissioners unless exempt under <br />section 913.06(2). The dividing of land into two (2) or <br />more parcels without filing a plat under the provisions <br />of this chapter, where the land divided was the result <br />of a previous division of land into two (2) or more <br />parcels which occurred after July 23, 1983, is <br />prohibited. <br />(B) Divide property by any means for the purpose of sale or <br />transfer of title unless each of the resulting parcels <br />has at least the minimum area and width requirements <br />prescribed by the zoning regulations and land use plan <br />of Indian River County as applied to the lots created, <br />unless exempt under section 913.06(2). <br />(C) Divide property after December 8, 1973 by any means <br />where a resulting lot has frontage on a dedicated public <br />or private right-of-way (street) less than 60 contiguous <br />feet, unless either exempted under section 913.06(2) or <br />unless the lot fronts upon a cul-de-sac or curve and <br />meets the requirements of Section 913.09(6)(C). Access, <br />ingress/egress, or other easements shall not be deemed <br />to constitute a dedicated road right-of-way unless <br />previously dedicated to and accepted by the county. <br />(D) Commence the construction of any improvements required <br />under this chapter without first having obtained a land <br />273 <br />