The town intends to protect, preserve, and perpetuate areas of historical, cultural, architectural, artistic or geographical significance located within the town. The town finds it desirable to protect and enhance the town’s economic base by attracting tourists, visitors and residents; to stabilize and improve property values; to foster civic pride by protecting the town’s unique cultural heritage by prohibiting the unnecessary destruction and defacement of its cultural assets; to preserve historic architectural design and integrity; and to ensure the harmonious, architecturally sympathetic, orderly and efficient growth and development of the town.