The "Special Bay Ridge District" established in this Resolution is designed to promote and protect the public health, safety and general welfare. These general goals include, among others, the following specific purposes:

(a)        to preserve, protect and maintain the existing scale and character of the residential and commercial community;

(b)        to encourage design of residential, commercial and community facility development which is in character with the neighborhood and surrounding community; and

(c)        to promote the most desirable use of land in the area and thus to conserve the value of land and buildings, and thereby to protect the City's tax revenues.