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Recommendation 7: <br />Action Strategies: <br />Support historic preservation. <br />A. Increase developer and citizen awareness of significant historic resources and the <br />need to protect them; <br />and offer rewards to developers who successfully incorporate and preserve county history in their <br />proj ects. <br />B. Identify and protect important corridors, areas, and sites of historic and cultural <br />significance; <br />C. Encourage heritage tourism <br />by protecting historic and archaeological sites and opening selected sites for a county "historic trail ". <br />D. Support the preservation and sharing of the county's history <br />through displays and museum exhibits. <br />Recommendation : Improve parks and recreation facilities and services. <br />Action Strategies: <br />A. Improve and expand park and recreation facilities: <br />■ Create more parks and nature trails adjacent to schools, and in high density areas. <br />■ Create rustic woodland trails along creeks. <br />■ Create a joint effort involving Duke, UNC, and local governments to develop three to four unpaved, rustic <br />woodland trails for hiking between county landmarks and parks /open space. <br />■ Develop bikeways. <br />■ Develop a teen center in Hillsborough. <br />B. Fund acquisition of land and easements for future parks, rustic woodland trails, and <br />bikeways as follows: <br />■ Issue bonds. <br />■ Pursue public /private partnerships. <br />■ Develop new funding sources for parks, such as improving payment -in -lieu systems and exploring impact <br />fees. <br />■ Provide incentives for landowners to donate small plots of vacant land for neighborhood benches and <br />playgrounds. <br />C. Increase community access to parks located in the county: <br />■ Expand access to existing school facilities for community recreation and cultural uses. <br />■ Establish an open facilities policy for OWASA lakes and for all parks in the county, to allow citizens of any <br />jurisdiction to use them. <br />D. Provide more outdoor education services <br />including nature interpretation, and lessons in outdoor skills and sports. <br />27 <br />