This District is intended to utilize the opportunities and unique characteristics of the Delaware River and the City of Chester's infrastructure to permit and encourage a diversity of uses, which can co-exist with each other, within the City's waterfront corridor. The further intent of this District is to provide for public access to the river and preserve scenic river views; and to promote the historical, cultural, recreational, environmental and tourist related features of the area.
A. 
New or expanded buildings shall be located to maintain any existing vistas of the Delaware River from Front Street or Route 291 via public streets.
B. 
Any applicant seeking approval for the construction or alteration of a project that is not water-dependent and which is located south of Route 291 shall demonstrate to the City Planning Commission how the design of the proposed project will enhance the public's visual and physical access to the waterfront to the maximum extent feasible.
C. 
Uses that are not industrial in nature shall be required to include the construction or extension of a pedestrian pathway system, with a public pedestrian easement, along all abutting segments of the Delaware River that are under the control of the applicant. The construction specifications for the pathway shall be approved by the City and include an ADA-accessible, low-maintenance hard surface with a minimum width of eight feet. The pathway shall be connected to any adjacent existing pathway segments and shall connect to public streets and major pedestrian destinations.
Buffering and landscape design shall be integrated with the overall area design concept. Proposed landscaping schemes will be evaluated as to their relationship to the developed and other proposed landscape, including those on adjacent properties and street rights-of-way and the building or buildings being proposed.
A. 
All projects shall provide a minimum of one shade tree per 40 linear feet of public street frontage, in addition to parking lot trees required under the General Regulations.
B. 
Low shrubbery, decorative masonry walls and/or landscaped berms are encouraged to be used to reduce the visibility from public streets of parking areas with 100 or more spaces. Such features are intended to have a height of two to four feet on the street side.
Allowed residential uses may be developed as separate lots, in a condominium arrangement, or as integrated into a building that also includes allowed nonresidential uses. The applicant shall describe measures that will be undertaken to separate or sound-proof new dwellings from proposed new nearby commercial uses that may generate late night noise.