In addition to the applicable provisions of the intent stated in Section 1105.03, it is the intent of these district regulations to promote retail business development appropriately designed and located to achieve, among others, the following objectives:
(a) Preserve the Municipality's downtown as a core for retail sales and personal service businesses.
(b) Promote pedestrian accessibility by discouraging uses that attract large-scale automobile and truck traffic that tend to make pedestrian circulation difficult and/or unsafe.
(c) Promote the grouping, clustering and compactness of buildings to further encourage both pedestrian access to retail sales and services as well as comparative shopping.
(d) Allow for a diversity of small business uses that complement and strengthen one another.
(e) Restrict the location of offices, trade and business schools, and self-improvement training facilities to floor space that is not located on the ground floor so as to not disturb or break up the continuous flow of pedestrian shopping within the Municipality's historic downtown core.
(f) To create a Central Shopping District in which all of the regulations contained in this chapter shall apply.
(g) To retain the unique historic and architectural characteristics of the downtown core while accommodating new investment.
(Ord. 2019-39. Passed 8-13-19.)