Palm Desert Municipal Code Ch. 29.10 Purpose

The purpose of this title is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare by providing for the identification, designation, protection, enhancement, perpetuation and use of cultural resources that reflect themes important in the city's history and to:

A. Foster civic and neighborhood pride and a sense of identity;

B. Safeguard and enhance the city's cultural, historic and architectural heritage;

C. Encourage and promote public knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the city's past and its unique sense of place;

D. Promote private and public stewardship and use of cultural resources for the education, enrichment and general welfare of the people;

E. Protect and enhance the city's attractions to residents, tourists and others, thereby stimulating business and industry;

F. Stabilize and enhance property values and increase the economic benefits of cultural resources preservation to the city and its residents;

G. Promote public awareness of the value of rehabilitation, adaptive reuse, restoration, and maintenance of cultural resources as a means to conserve reusable material and energy resources;

H. Identify and resolve conflicts between the preservation of cultural resources and alternative land uses;

I. Encourage new development that will be aesthetically compatible with existing cultural resources; and

J. Implement the cultural resources goals and policies of the general plan.

(Ord. 1168, 2008)