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The purpose of the downtown form-based code is to implement the goals and policies of the City’s comprehensive plan and the objectives of each downtown zone’s intent statements as provided in CMC 18.15.080. The regulations within this chapter seek to enhance downtown Covington’s visual and pedestrian-oriented character. Specific purposes of this chapter are to:

(1) Promote a downtown with a diverse mix of retail, housing, office, and civic land uses and a genuine sense of place.

(2) Encourage development that is pedestrian-oriented and human-scale in an aesthetically attractive, energy efficient, easily accessible, and economically healthy environment.

(3) Include diverse retail and service uses, higher density residential housing, a network of pedestrian-oriented streets, and a high degree of connectivity for all modes of travel.

(4) Include a central public gathering place at the heart of downtown in the town center zone. (Ord. 08-21 § 3 (Exh. B))