The General Downtown (DT1) zone is established to provide a pedestrian friendly, mixed-use environment that is complementary to and surrounds the more intensive Downtown Core (DT2) zone while providing an appropriate scaled development between adjacent neighborhoods and higher-density downtown developments. In addition to general regulations, specific regulations included in this zone preserve the scale and mass of historic Center Street. This zone’s mixed-use nature is intended to provide housing and business opportunities adjacent to public transit and thereby facilitate increases in the use of public transit and reduce City-wide traffic and congestion elsewhere. The DT1 zone is characterized by clean, well-lighted streets, ample pedestrian ways, landscaping and inviting residential uses, well-maintained shops, stores, offices, with a mixed-use design.