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DRAFT 1/28/91 <br />Page 6 <br />PARRS AND TRAILS <br />OBJECTIVES: <br />1. To develop a park system to serve both neighborhood <br />and community needs. <br />2. To provide adequate active and passive recreation programs <br />and facilities for community residents. <br />3. To provide an interconnected park and open space system <br />that provides pedestrian and bicycle linkages throughout <br />the City. <br />POLICIES: <br />1. Upgrade and improve existing parks. <br />2. Offer park/recreation programs to residents that complement <br />recreation programs available from surrounding cities <br />and the school districts and duplicate programs only <br />when necessary. <br />3. Cooperate with the University of Minnesota and the <br />State Fairgrounds in sharing recreation and open <br />space lands. <br />4. Acquire additional park land through the City's land <br />acquisition and park dedication program if the University <br />of Minnesota's agricultural land north of Larpenteur <br />along Fairview is sold and developed for residential <br />use. <br />5. Build trails as an integral part of ,upgrading <br />collector streets and minor arterial streets except <br />along Snelling Avenue. <br />(This element is being coordinated with the Park and <br />Recreation Commission.) <br /> <br />• <br />• <br />