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Provide and maintain adequate and efficient levels of public services within the community. <br /> POLICIES <br /> • Create and maintain a trail system that allows for sale pedestrian movements <br /> throughout the City and provide access to parks and other open spaces with active <br /> and passive recreational opportunities for residents in all age groups. <br /> ▪ Maintain and improve the city's existing public recreation facilities. <br /> ▪ Require developers of new areas to either dedicate public open space or make a <br /> payment in lieu of dedication to the City's park improvement fund. <br /> 3. GOAL <br /> Develop, preserve and protect environmental resources, such as forests, wetlands, water <br /> bodies and their shorelines,within the area with respect to open space, recreational uses, <br /> water and air quality and natural ecosystems. <br /> POLICIES <br /> • Restrict development of shorelands, wetlands and drainage ways. <br /> • Restrict alteration of natural contours and soils and restrict removal of natural <br /> vegetation. <br /> • Preserve natural systems through acquisition, dedication or easements. <br /> ▪ Require that development plans demonstrate a compatibility with natural features <br /> and systems. <br /> 4. GOAL <br /> Preserve, maintain and/or strengthen the cultural, social, historical, physical and visual <br /> qualities unique to the community. <br /> POLICIES <br /> ▪ Reserve through purchase, easement, or dedication public access to wetlands, <br /> waterways, Lakeshore or other natural preservation areas. <br /> • Work with other public and private agencies to identify, preserve and protect sites <br /> of historical, architectural and cultural significance. <br /> • Work with developers to preserve existing natural open space areas. <br /> • Require that developers provide for buffer area between differing, non compatible <br /> land use, whenever possible making use of the natural land characteristics. <br /> 6 <br />