1137.01 INTENT.

   The C-3 Downtown Business District is designed to distinguish the area as unique from all other business district areas in the City. The unique characteristics include closer massing of buildings, taller buildings, pedestrian-friendly walkways; numerous uses to co-exist that are prohibited in other districts; using the City’s rights-of-ways for outdoor dining, sidewalk sales, and exhibits; lack of required setbacks; and lack of parking requirements.

   The C-3 Downtown Business District is the most open zoning district and allows the mixing of uses that other zoning districts do not permit. Creative parking arrangements are encouraged but not required. Absent any parking requirements, there cannot be an expectation to provide ample curbside parking in front of each business door, nor can there be a code standard cited as reason for creating surface parking lots in place of existing buildings.

(Ord. 2023-115. Passed 12-19-23.)