The “Special Inwood District” established in this Resolution is designed to promote and protect public health, safety and general welfare. These general goals include, among others, the following specific purposes:

(a)        to create a lively and attractive built environment that will provide amenities and services for the use and enjoyment of area residents, workers and visitors;

(b)        to encourage well-designed development that complements and enhances the built character of the neighborhood;

(c)        to enhance neighborhood economic diversity by broadening the range of housing choices for residents of varied incomes;

(d)        to maintain and establish physical and visual public access to and along the waterfront;

(e)        to promote the pedestrian orientation of ground floor uses in appropriate locations, and thus safeguard a traditional quality of higher density areas of the City;

(f)        to take advantage of the waterfront along the Harlem River, Sherman Creek, and the North Cove and create a public open space network;

(g)        to focus higher-density development in appropriate locations along wide, mixed-use corridors with good access to transit;

(h)        to provide flexibility of architectural design within limits established to assure adequate access of light and air to streets and public access areas, and thus encourage more attractive and economic building forms; and

(i)        to promote the most desirable use of land and development in accordance with the District Plan for the Inwood waterfront, and thus conserve and enhance the value of land and buildings, and thereby protect the City’s tax revenues.