§ 45-2201. General.

The purpose of this district is to encourage development activities that provide desirable employment and enlarge the tax base, and to provide for stabilization and redevelopment of the geographic area known generally as the Downtown of Newport News. The area (henceforth referred to as the Regional Business District) is proposed for a concentration of professional and business offices, financial institutions, retail, manufacturing, municipal, cultural, transportation, entertainment and residential uses.

To conserve the property values, facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive and harmonious community, and to promote an orderly development in this district, no building permit or other permit for construction or exterior alteration of any building or structure or the use of any land shall be issued until a project proposal report and/or site development plan as specified herein are recommended for approval to the site plan review committee in writing by the regional business district committee.

(Ord. No. 5028-97, § 1)

(Ord. No. 5028-97, § 1)