16.25.010 Statement of intent.
The central business district is the financial and business hub of the community. It is to be developed as an aesthetically attractive area of intense use. Toward this end, the city shall encourage the development of regional retail shopping facilities, and major office complexes along with specialty retail, business support services, urban residential, hotel and institutional uses. Development must enhance people orientation, and provide for the needs, activities and interests of people. The city will encourage land uses that emphasize variety, mixed uses and unity of form within buildings or complexes. Specific land use districts in the form of sub-areas have been established within the Central Business District (CBD) to permit variation in use and development standards in order to implement the CBD goals and policies of the Lacey Comprehensive Plan. See Table 16T-05 for a description of each land use district.
A. Central Business District -4 (CBD-4). The purpose of the CBD-4 land use district is to provide an area for general commercial and limited business activities. This district also serves as a transition area between more intensive core area activities and neighboring residential areas. Long-term parking and automobile-oriented uses are encouraged.
B. Central Business District-5 (CBD-5). The purpose of CBD-5 land use district is to provide an area for general commercial activities along with mixed use activities, office complexes and public facilities.
C. Central Business District-6 (CBD-6). The purpose of the CBD-6 land use district is to provide an area for general commercial activities, along with mixed-use activities, office complexes, hotels and public facilities.
D. Central Business District-7 (CBD-7). The purpose of the CBD-7 land use district is to provide an area for a broad range of business park-type activities, along with mixed-use activities, office complexes, hotels, limited general commercial, and public facilities.
E. Saint Martin’s University. The purpose of the Saint Martin’s University land use district is to provide an area for college campus activities, such as classrooms, dormitories, pavilions, athletic fields and facilities, and associated uses and activities. (Ord. 1355 §2, 2010; Ord. 1131 §1 (repeals), 3, 2000; Ord. 1098 §14(A), 1999; Ord. 1080 §9, 1998; Ord. 965 §1, 1993; Ord. 871 §2 (part), 1989).