• Promote and enhance the aesthetic qualities of development within the arterial road corridors through the implementation of land use regulations, and within which amenity features are encouraged.
• Provide management of the location and intensity of development within the arterial road corridor and to concentrate development in focus areas.
• Provide safe access by vehicles and pedestrians to destinations in the corridor in a manner that does not conflict with access to individual developments or the roadway’s primary purpose.
• Promote the minimization of visual clutter along the City’s major roadways.
• Provide a quality and sustainable living environment for the citizens of Columbus.
• Provide effective transitions between different uses, by planting trees, shrubs, groundcover and other landscaping material in open space areas, which enhance development of the urban environment by promoting shade, cooling the air through evaporation, restoring oxygen to the atmosphere, reducing glare and noise levels, and promoting an ecological habitat for animal and plant species.
• Provide greater control over the aesthetic and functional characteristics of development along major thoroughfares and roadways that serve as major entrances to the community, where higher development standards can effectively enhance the City’s image as a desirable place to live, work and shop.

The US Highway 80 Overlay demands additional requirements for development along US Highway 80 from Warm Springs Road, east to the Talbot county line with a 1000-foot depth at each intersection.

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