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2 <br /> 25 <br /> 3. Site Suitability <br /> Land provided or dedicated for <br /> passive recreation and open space <br /> purposes shall be of a character, <br /> slope and location suitable for use <br /> for walking, jogging, reading and <br /> similar quiet activities, and the <br /> preservation of natural features and <br /> cultural resources such as steep <br /> slopes, rock outcrops, native plant <br /> life and wildlife cover, mature <br /> woodlands and water resources. <br /> Criteria for evaluating the <br /> suitability of proposed recreation <br /> areas shall include but not be <br /> limited to the following: <br /> a. LOca ' n. Land dedicated for a. The open space as shown preserves <br /> recreation purposes shall be fields rising to a wooded knoll. The <br /> located so as to serve the needs open space was planned to protect the <br /> of the residents of the vista from Old NC 86. A portion is <br /> subdivision and the residents of proposed for agricultural use. It also <br /> the immediate neighborhood serves to buffer some of the residential <br /> within which the subdivision is lots from Old NC 86, an arterial. The <br /> located. Recreation areas shall portion proposed for use by the <br /> be located so as to provide residents is on top of the knoll away <br /> insofar as possible, reasonable from roads and drainage areas. <br /> accessibility to all residents of <br /> the subdivision and residents <br /> living in the immediate <br /> neighborhood. Recreation areas <br /> shall be located where land <br /> more suited for recreational <br /> purposes due to shape, level <br /> slopes and/or dry soil conditions <br /> is present. Where proposed <br /> park sites are shown on the <br /> adopted Land Use Plan, and a <br /> subdivision contains a portion of <br /> the park site, then the recreation <br /> area may be located at the edge <br /> of the subdivision so that <br /> additional land may be added as <br /> adjacent land is subdivided. <br />