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Draft 4/ 28/ 99 • If active facilities must be located in areas adjacent to residential communities, buy larger land area to develop buffers for shielding of light and noise. Why are some park facilities now viewed as an impact than an improvement? More analysis is needed to explore the change in attitude toward park impacts. However, the following suggestions are offered as ways to4 mitigate concerns about active recreation facilities while meeting the greater public need: • The co -location of schools and parks can address this issue with appropriate design. • Co -locating schools with parks may have superseded the old concept of community (mid-level) parks. If this is the case, the focus for future parks and recreation development could be targeted to smaller, less-intensive neighborhood parks and larger district parks. • By combining active and passive recreation needs at the district park level (100-plus acres), it may be possible to develop trails and retain natural areas on the perimeter of parks while dedicating a portion of the interior to active facilities and "hide " parking areas. Care must be exercised to ensure the integrity of significant natural areas, however. • Buffers should contain enough land and mature tree canopy to minimize sound and lighting to an acceptable • Place all future active recreation facilities, in larger district parks and make neighborhood parks passive • Look countywide to define future neighborhood and district parks - working with UNC, OWASA and other entities • Related to . the above, land banking is needed now to begin to identify and save priority parklands. Several local governments (including some city/county joint efforts) are presently engaged in land banking. D . Mechanisms for Implementing Goals Through Capital Improvement Plans ( CIP 's ) -and Land - .Banking < < To be developed > > 17