845.01 PURPOSE.
   The regulations in this chapter are designed to allow sidewalk cafes on public sidewalks in locations where they are determined to be an appropriate amenity and to promote and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare. These goals include, among others, the following specific purposes:
   (a)   To provide adequate space for pedestrian use adjacent to sidewalk cafes and to insure access to adjacent commercial and retail uses;
   (b)   To promote sidewalk cafes as useful and properly planned visual amenities which better relate to the streetscape;
   (c)   To promote the most desirable use of land and buildings and thereby protect the City's tax revenues;
   (d)   To promote the historic character and ambience of the downtown area of the City.
(Ord. 11-04. Passed 6-1-04; Ord. 07-05. Passed 4-12-05; Ord. 06-07. Passed 5-1-07.)