The purpose of the Historic and Neighborhood Commercial District is to encourage a centralized commercial area that provides for convenient business uses, which tend to meet the daily shopping and service needs of the residents of an immediate and surrounding neighborhood, preserve structures of historic and architectural value, encourage the establishment and maintenance of local office and trade establishments, and which contain pedestrian-oriented development that is compatible with the surrounding neighborhood character. Because of the proximity to residential neighborhoods, high quality design is essential in order to enhance the community's character and historical significance of those neighborhoods.
(Passed 10-3-17.)