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Park Standards • Please refer to Appendix 1 for a full comparison of the previously adopted park classifications for each jurisdiction . Park types are broken into six types ; Regional, District, Community, Neighborhood, Mini Park, and Linear Park . • There are national and state standards for park classification and all three jurisdictions considered both of these standards in compiling their local standards . • The jurisdictions standards are established using ratios of acreage to population which have been established for each type of park . • Most of the standards are very close . There appears to be no overriding factor against making the standards the same . • A linear park or greenway is an area where conformity to a standard is difficult, if not impossible . This type of park is usually predicated upon the need for stream buffering, transportation, scenic hiking, etc . A more serious effort would be fruitful in developing standards for the type of construction on common greenways so that a paved trail does not end at one jurisdiction' s limits and a beaten path extend along the same corridor into the adjoining jurisdiction . • Much of what has been said in the forgoing section is the same for development of standards for public recreation facilities . These are "population driven" and national and state averages are used as a base line upon which to determine local standards . Park and facility standards are detailed in Appendix 1 and 2 . • Program demands . unique to one locale may drive a standard to a higher or lower level than national and state averages . • All three jurisdictions considered UNC-CH and school facilities but did not factor them into the standards . UNC-CH has many recreation and park amenities such as the Botanical Gardens , Finley Golf Course, the athletic stadium and others . National and state standards do not reflect these types of quasi-public facilities . Page 3