Definitions

For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

Authority: The downtown development authority, the body corporate hereby created by this article, known as the downtown development authority board of the city.

Board: The governing body of the authority selected as herein provided.

Central business district: The area in the city to which this article primarily relates, zoned and used principally for business.

Director: The chief executive officer of the authority selected by the board as herein provided.

Downtown: A specifically defined area or zone of the city in the central business district, established by the city.

Governing body: The commission of the city.

Planning board: The department or agency of the city, by whatever name such department or agency may be known, which is chiefly responsible for community planning.

Public facility: Any street, park, parking lot, playground, right-of-way, structure, waterway, bridge, lake, pond, canal, utility line or pipe, building, including access routes to any of the foregoing designed and dedicated to use by the public generally, or used by any public agency with or without charge, whether or not the same is revenue producing.

(Code 1967, § 13-1; Code 1980, § 14-16)