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• Restrict development of private roads that may present a future burden on the City • to upgrade. • Require that all developers provide roads and utilities to city specifications before the City assumes ownership and maintenance responsibilities. • Require developers of new residential areas to either dedicate a park or playground site, or make a payment in lieu of dedication to the City's park improvement fund. • Provide storm sewers to those areas no longer adequately drained by natural systems. 3. GOAL: Develop, preserve and protect environmental resources such as wetlands, forests, water bodies and their shorelines, within the City with respect to open space, recreational uses, water and air quality and natural ecosystems. POLICIES: • Restrict insensitive development of shoreland, wetlands and drainage ways by requiring larger lot sizes and open space. • Restrict inappropriate alteration of significant natural contours and soils. • Preserve natural systems through acquisition, dedication or easements. 11111 • Require that development plans demonstrate a compatibility with natural features and systems. • Establish tree preservation and protection standards to maintain the integrity of the City's natural vegetation. 4. GOAL: Preserve, maintain and/or strengthen the physical and visual qualities unique to the community. POLICIES: • Preserve through purchase, easement, dedication or other instrument, public access to wetlands, lakeshore or other natural preservation areas. • Work with developers to preserve existing natural open space areas. • Require that developers provide buffer areas between differing, non-compatible land uses. 5. GOAL: Provide an appropriate, reasonable, and enforceable system of development controls and implementation programs for the guidance of future land use in the City. • 30