[Added 4-11-2005 by Ord. No. 1247-2005; amended 4-11-2022 by Ord. No. 1552-2022]
A.
Purpose. Provisions for the FRD Overlay District have been enacted
to:
(1)
Foster redevelopment of the area known as "The Flats" in a manner
which will encourage local, regional, and national visitors to the
City while also providing services and opportunities for residents
of the City. Such redevelopment should be planned and constructed
in a manner to encourage pedestrian circulation between the FRD Overlay
District and the adjoining C-2 Central Business District.
(2)
Promote the revitalization and redevelopment of the City as
a compact, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented place.
B.
Description of the Flats Redevelopment (FRD) Overlay District and
conditions of eligibility.
(1)
The FRD Overlay District is the area which consists of the following
lots (identified by the Tax Map Parcel Number assigned thereto by
the Board of Assessment of the County of Chester):
(2)
The FRD Overlay District overlays portions of the I-2 Heavy Industrial District, C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District, and C-4 Special Commercial Use District, respectively, in the area described in § 224-102B(1).
C.
D.
Lot area, width, coverage, yard and height requirements. Lot area
and coverage requirements of not less or greater than (as applicable)
the dimensions stated shall be provided for each development within
the FRD Overlay District. These requirements shall be established
and applicable to the entirety of the lot(s) upon which development
is occurring, whether in common ownership or control or otherwise.
E.
Development standards. In addition to the standards in § 224-102D, the following shall apply:
(1)
Parking and access. Except as set forth in this § 224-112E(1), the provisions of Article XIII shall apply to developments within the FRD Overlay District.
(a)
When two or more uses, activities, or separate establishments are located within the same development, off-street parking as required for each use, activity, or separate establishment pursuant to § 224-64C may be reduced by a total of 20% in the aggregate pursuant to a shared parking plan which the proponent of the development shall submit to the City Engineer for review and approval in accordance with the standards set forth by authoritative sources such as the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and/or the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Any such shared parking plan shall be prepared by a professional engineer licensed as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who shall regularly practice in the field of traffic study and design and shall include consideration of (i) the hours of operation of the uses, activities, or separate establishments are located within the development; (ii) the location and proximity of off-street parking spaces within the development relative to each of those uses, activities, or separate establishments; (iii) the expected duration of the stay at the subject development by visitors to each use, activity, or separate establishment; and (iv) the relative sizes of each use.
(b)
When a development located within the FRD Overlay District is comprised of more than one lot, the off-street parking for any one or more use(s) within that development as required pursuant to § 224-64C (as modified pursuant to § 224-112E(1)[a]) may be located on a lot other than that on which the use(s) is/are located.
(c)
Off-street parking for developments within the FRD Overlay District
may be located in front of the front building line and on the rear,
front, or sides of any building.
(2)
External pedestrian access. Sidewalks within the FRD Overlay
District shall be a minimum of five feet in width. Developments within
the FRD Overlay District shall include sidewalks along:
(a)
The Lincoln Highway frontage of any lot(s) undergoing development
which have frontage upon such roadway provided that, to the extent
that any sidewalk shall exist along such frontage as of the date of
any application for land development approval for development within
the FRD Overlay District, the width of such existing sidewalk shall
be retained or replicated; and
(b)
Otherwise as shall be necessary to provide pedestrian connection
between not less than one point within the development and the adjoining
C-2 Central Business District.
(3)
Internal pedestrian access. All developments within the FRD
Overlay District shall be designed with defined pedestrian pathways
between off-street parking areas and buildings located on the lot(s)
undergoing development, which such pathways shall be a minimum of
five feet in width.
(4)
Utilities. All new utilities constructed within a lot undergoing
development pursuant to the FRD Overlay District regulations must
be installed and placed underground.
F.
Declaration of covenants, easements, and restrictions. In the event
that development pursuant to the FRD Overlay District regulations
is proposed or occurring upon multiple lots which are not in common
ownership or control (or which may be separately subjected to mortgages
or liens as security for indebtedness), the owner of each constituent
lot shall join into and deliver to the City a declaration of covenants,
easements, and restrictions in form and substance reasonably acceptable
to the City Solicitor pursuant to which such owners shall be obligated
to keep and maintain the entire development subject to such easements
and agreements as may be necessary to maintain the development as
a common and indivisible scheme and plan.
G.
Applicability of specific ordinance sections. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary set forth in this article, the following sections
of this chapter shall apply to developments within the FRD Overlay
District:
(2)
Section 224-30G (Watercourses) [except § 224-30G(2)(b), which shall not apply to developments within the FRD Overlay District].
