25.01   PURPOSE AND INTENT. 
   The purposes of this chapter are to:
      1.   Promote the educational, cultural, economic and general welfare of the public through the recognition, enhancement and perpetuation of sites and districts of historical and cultural significance;
      2.   Safeguard the City’s historic, aesthetic and cultural heritage by preserving sites and districts of historic and cultural significance;
      3.   Stabilize and improve property values;
      4.   Foster pride in the legacy of beauty and achievements of the past;
      5.   Protect and enhance the City’s attractions to tourists and visitors and the support and stimulus to business thereby provided;
      6.   Strengthen the economy of the City;
      7.   Promote the use of sites and districts of historic and cultural significance as places for the education, pleasure, and welfare of the people of the City.