(a) Permitted uses.
(1) The selection of the urban renewal area was made on the basis of providing needed expansion room for the Central Business District, intensifying residential density levels in the vicinity of the Central Business District, introducing necessary convenience commercial establishments to service not only the higher-intensity residential re-uses but also adjacent residential development. Permitted land uses within the project area are limited to the following:
A. Central Business District commercial and office uses, including all retail and service establishments, but excluding the following uses: automobile sales, service and repair, including tire and washing establishments; motel, hotel or other transient housing; pet shops, kennels and animal hospitals; service stations; drive-in restaurants or any other drive-in facility;
B. Convenience commercial and office uses such as bakery shops, barber shops, beauty parlors, ice cream stores, drug stores, food stores, launderettes, laundromats, dry cleaning establishments, variety stores and accessory buildings or uses incidental to the foregoing. Drive-in facilities shall not be permitted;
C. High-rise multiple-family apartment units, multi-family garden apartments, row houses and single-family detached dwelling units. Low and moderate income housing, including public housing, shall be permitted;
D. Neighborhood park land and pedestrian walkways;
E. Loading-unloading zones, off-street parking and landscaped pedestrian walkways and sidewalks as required in connection with the foregoing permitted uses;
F. Institutional uses; and
G. Industrial uses limited to railroad rights-of-way.
(2) Existing buildings within the project area that are to remain include the Masonic Building (also known as the Leader Building) located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Center Street and Third Street; the new U.S. Post Office Building located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Railroad Street and Fourth Street; and William Bourne’s single-family home at 322 Buckhorn Street.
(b) Land use controls and building restrictions. Land use controls and building restrictions required by the Urban Renewal Plan on the sale, lease or retention of all real property acquired shall be as set forth in this division. The project area covered by the Urban Renewal Plan has been subdivided into 17 tracts designated Tracts A through Q (see the Land Use Plan map). For each of these tracts of land, specifications are outlined, e.g. development objectives to be accomplished, physical organization of uses and activities, provision of off-street parking spaces, provision for pedestrian movement, access for vehicular traffic, including service vehicles, and other restrictions on the use and development of the area. In addition, a statement of control is provided for those areas not presently proposed for acquisition (Tracts R, S, T). These controls shall only become applicable if, at a later date, the project should acquire these properties. Otherwise the Zoning Code shall control the future development of these parcels.
(Editor’s note: Tract N was deleted by Ordinance 75-16, passed March 27, 1975.)
(Res. 5531, passed 4-22-1971)