(a) The CBD-1 Central Business District is designed to provide for a restricted variety of retail stores and business and consumer service establishments which most efficiently function from a central place in the community, and which serve the comparison shopping and service needs of a population encompassing the City and its environs.
(b) The District regulations are designed to provide for a centrally located major shopping and service complex which will be serviced with conveniently located off-street parking compounds and safe pedestrian movement, excluding those activities which are incompatible with the pedestrian orientation of the downtown area because of their introduction of truck traffic, auto-pedestrian conflict points and non-consumer oriented “dead spaces” within the downtown street frontage.
(c) The District regulations are further designed in recognition of the downtown area as a significant economic and community asset, and further to protect and promote the architecturally significant and historically significant buildings within the district and to establish a review procedure for new construction and major exterior renovations within the downtown area that seeks to promote and preserve the overall historic character of the district.
(Ord. 2712. Passed 8-1-78; Ord. 5192. Passed 1-6-98.)