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POLICIES • • Continue the low density residential development pattern through the use of open space areas and the designation of buffer areas between non-compatible land uses. 2. GOAL Provide and maintain adequate and efficient levels of public services within the community. POLICIES • Create and maintain a trail system that allows for safe pedestrian movements throughout the City and provide access to parks and other open spaces with active and passive recreational opportunities for residents in all age groups. • Maintain and improve the city's existing public recreation facilities. • Require developers of new areas to either dedicate public open space or make a payment in lieu of dedication to the City's park improvement fund. 3. GOAL Develop, preserve and protect environmental resources, such as forests, wetlands, water bodies and their shorelines, within the area with respect to open space, recreational uses, water and air quality and natural ecosystems. POLICIES • Restrict development of shorelands, wetlands and drainage ways. • Restrict alteration of natural contours and soils and restrict removal of natural vegetation. • Preserve natural systems through acquisition, dedication or easements. • Require that development plans demonstrate a compatibility with natural features and systems. 4. GOAL Preserve, maintain and/or strengthen the cultural, social, historical, physical and visual qualities unique to the community. POLICIES • Reserve through purchase, easement, or dedication public access to wetlands, waterways, lakeshore or other natural preservation areas. • Work with other public and private agencies to identify, preserve and protect sites of historical, architectural and cultural significance. • Work with developers to preserve existing natural open space areas. • Require that developers provide for buffer area between differing, non compatible land use, whenever possible making use of the natural land characteristics. et 6