This district is created to provide for planned shopping centers. It is intended to promote the grouping of commercial uses and provide areas large enough to establish harmonious relationships between structures, people, and the automobile with the use of well planned parking and access, pedestrian walkways, courtyards, malls, and open spaces. Strip type development is discouraged. Developments which exist at the time this title was adopted may be included in a BPL district because they are similar in use and character to the permitted uses of this district and this statement of intent. Also, certain areas, which lend themselves appropriately to this statement of intent but which, on the effective date hereof are not occupied by commercial uses, but have strong pressures to be used as such, have been classified BPL. (Ord. 2013-20)