(1) To encourage, protect and maintain water-dependent and water-related uses;

(2) To encourage development of park space, pedestrian connections, and public recreational space;

(3) To provide appropriately located areas for commercial/economic enterprises, tourism, or recreation for the convenience of the public and in mutually beneficial relationships to each other;

(4) To provide space for community facilities and institutions that appropriately may be located in areas;

(5) To provide adequate space to meet the needs of commercial development, including off-street parking and truck loading areas;

(6) To minimize traffic congestion and create a safe and continuous pedestrian connection;

(7) To protect non-industrial uses from noise, odor, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare, heavy truck traffic, and other objectionable influences incidental to industrial uses;

(8) To encourage new development to maintain a certain relationship between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks; and

(9) To protect and maintain certain industrial uses that require waterfront locations.