A. Designate, preserve, protect, enhance, and perpetuate those sites, buildings, districts, structures and objects which reflect significant elements of the City’s, county’s, state’s and nation’s cultural, aesthetic, social, economic, political, architectural, ethnic, archaeological, engineering, historic and other heritage;

B. Foster civic pride in the beauty and accomplishments of the past;

C. Stabilize and improve the economic values and vitality of landmarks;

D. Protect and enhance the City’s tourist industry by promoting heritage-related tourism;

E. Promote the continued use, exhibition and interpretation of significant sites, districts, buildings, structures, objects, artifacts, materials and records for the education, inspiration and welfare of the people of Lakewood;

F. Promote and continue incentives for ownership and utilization of landmarks;

G. Assist, encourage and provide incentives to public and private owners for preservation, restoration, rehabilitation and use of landmark buildings, sites, districts, structures and objects;

H. Assist, encourage, and provide technical assistance to public agencies, public and private museums, archives and historic preservation associations and other organizations involved in the preservation, exhibition, protection and interpretation of Lakewood’s heritage;

I. Work cooperatively to identify, evaluate and protect historic resources in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter. [Ord. 251 § 1, 2000.]