15.72.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health, safety and general welfare by providing for the identification, protection, enhancement, perpetuation and use of improvements, buildings, structures, signs, objects, features, sites, places and areas within Bakersfield that reflect special elements of the city’s architectural, artistic, cultural, engineering, aesthetic, historical, political, social and other heritage for the following reasons:
A. To safeguard the city’s heritage as embodied and reflected in such resources;
B. To encourage public knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the city’s past;
C. To foster civic and neighborhood pride and a sense of identity based on the recognition and use of cultural resources;
D. To promote the enjoyment and use of cultural resources appropriate for the education and recreation of the people of the city;
E. To preserve diverse and harmonious architectural styles and design preferences of periods of the city’s history and to encourage complementary contemporary design and construction;
F. To protect and enhance the city’s attraction to tourists and visitors (thereby stimulating business and industry);
G. To identify as early as possible conflicts between the preservation of cultural resources and alternative land uses;
H. To integrate the preservation of cultural resources and the extraction of relevant data from such resources into public and private land management and development processes;
I. To conserve valuable material and energy resources by ongoing use and maintenance of the existing built environment. (Ord. 4460 § 1, 2007)