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Parkland Acquisition Goals. Objectives and Criteria <br />...from Joint Master Recreation and Parks report <br />Goals <br />* Encourage schooUpark joint planning <br />* Preserve natural resources <br />* Promote multi jurisdictional recreation and preservation efforts <br />* Preserve watersheds and water quality <br />* Encourage historic and cultural preservation <br />* Ident~ and emphasize targeted needs <br />* Establish public/private partnerships <br />* Encourage the dedication of easements <br />* Implement land-banking opportunities <br />* Acquire/purchaseparldand through development process <br />* Develop linear parks concepts and plans <br />Using these goals, more-specific objectives were identiFied: <br />Objectives <br />* Keep active recreation facilities away from land that is environmentally sensitive, such as <br />wetlands; <br />* Develop a program for land dedication/recreation payment that is more effective and. <br />comprehensive; <br />* Protect identified natural areas and wildlife habitats in conjunction with the creation of <br />recreation facilities; <br />* Develop linear parks in the Rural Buffer, and explore opportunities along other identified <br />stream corridors; <br />* "Retrofit"existing developed properties for recreation; <br />* Enhance efforts like the New Hope Creek Corridor Study and the Upper Eno River <br />preservation efforts; <br />* Develop land-use planning mechanism for securing neighborhood parks <br />Criteria for Evaluating Possible Land Acquisition <br />F` ~'` F`?~"~ Parklands Acquisition Criteria <br />N/A The existence of matching funds from a requesting jurisdiction <br />Possible NC PARTF Potential for grants and other funding opportunities <br />N/A Completion of existing projects with an adopted facility plan <br />None Contains a site identified in the Inventory of Natural Areas and <br /> Wildlife Habitats of Orange County, N.C. <br />Active areas could be adjacent to Compatibility of planned park use with adjacent land uses <br />major transportation corridors <br />and buffered from other areas. <br />Active recreation closer to Appropriate intensity of use for the azea <br />corridor and low-impact to west <br />and north adjacent to current and <br />future residential azeas <br />No parks of this type in the Location <br />vicinity. Closest active <br />recreation facility at New Hope <br />Elementazy or in Hillsborough. <br />