§ 53-891. Purpose.

(a)

The purpose of this division is to establish four conditional use overlay districts to maintain a high character and quality of community development, to promote compatible uses and standards, to preserve and enhance property values, to promote economic growth, to provide for orderly development, to provide for proper movement of traffic, and to secure the general safety of citizens by regulating the exterior architectural characteristics of structures and the characteristics of the property as a whole throughout each of the conditional use overlay districts as defined in section 53-892.

(b)

The conditional use overlay districts will assist the community to recognize and preserve the distinctive architectural character of this community, which has been greatly influenced by the architecture of an earlier period in this community's history. This purpose shall be served by the regulation of exterior design, use of materials, the finish grade line, ingress and egress, and landscaping and orientation of all structures hereinafter altered, constructed, reconstructed, reacted, enlarged, remodeled, removed, or demolished in the conditional use overlay districts defined in section 53-892.

(c)

It is the further intent of this division that, in order to coordinate and expedite the permits, review and time required for compliance with this division and all other applicable city, state, and federal ordinances, codes, laws, rules, and regulations, the applicant for a conditional use permit under this division may combine such application with the application for site plan approval so that both applications may be considered and acted upon on substantially the same schedule.

(Ord. No. 438, § 66(a), 11-24-2003; Ord. No. 742 , § 2(Exh. A), 9-3-2013)