The purpose of this Development Code is to promote the public health, safety, general welfare and preserve and enhance the aesthetic quality of the City by providing regulations to ensure an appropriate mix of land uses in an orderly manner. In furtherance of this purpose, the City desires to achieve a pattern and distribution of land uses which generally:
1. Retain and enhance established residential neighborhoods, commercial and industrial zones, regional-serving uses, recreation and amenities.
2. Allow for the infill and recycling of areas at their prevailing scale and character.
3. Allow for the intensification of commercial industrial uses and mixed-density in select residential neighborhoods.
4. Accommodate expansion of development into vacant and low-use lands within environmental and infrastructure constraints.
5. Maintain and enhance significant environmental resources.
6. Provide a diversity of areas characterized by differing land use activity, scale and intensity.
7. Establish San Bernardino as a unique and distinctive place in the Inland Empire with a high quality of life and aesthetic, secure environment for the City's residences and businesses.
(Ord. MC-1393, 12-02-13; Ord. MC-782, 5-03-91)