The commercial C-2 shopping center district is established to promote the grouping
of contiguous buildings, stores, offices and other uses on a lot in a manner which
constitutes an organized, architecturally harmonious, efficient, and convenient shopping
center, and to provide a means for permitting the establishment of such centers as
part of the development of the city. The commercial C-2 district is created in order
to secure in such a facility, traffic safety through provision for proper traffic
routing and automobile parking, control of traffic on public streets through provision
for adequate off-street parking and off-street loading, and protection of the surrounding
neighborhood and promotion of the general welfare of the city. Commercial developments
which contain any combination of three or more contiguous uses from section 137-326 shall constitute a shopping center and shall be zoned commercial C-2 district.
