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Suggested Updated Goals Program For the City 3-5 Year Perspective Parks/Recreation/Forestry City Goal#1 TO ESTABLISH A UNIQUE COMMUNITY IDENTITY AND IMAGE BUILDING ON THE CITY'S LAKES AND ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITIES The preservation of natural resources is very important to city residents. One of the goals of our Comprehensive Plan is to provide residents with parks and open space for recreational uses with the objective of enhancing the quality of life by fulfilling physical, and psychological needs; and to preserve significant natural resources as important components of the overall park system. The Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Plan has been instrumental in achieving these objectives by the establishment of goal and policy statements that have involved the community in the process. Parks and Recreation, unlike any other entity in a city with three school districts, can bring the community together through a common cause, leisure. Special events such as Earth Day, Safety Camp, Performance in the Parks, Summer Playground all focus in total community inclusion and identity issues. It has been a policy to involve the community in recreation and environmental concerns, through working at the committee level with recreation interests, trails, and environmental. Recently we joined the SE Anoka County Cities steering committee"Creating Community." We plan on working with our Police Department on ideas for this focus. We have been looking at the big and long term picture when it comes to environmental and open space issues. The work on the greenway ideas such as Clearwater Creek is an example where Economic Development,Engineering, and Parks and Recreation can work together in this regards. We have been working with the University of Minnesota Collage of Natural Resources on a future land development environmental assessment and hopefully working towards a city-wide environmental Inventory. The city reforestation, oakwilt control and tree preservation efforts are all programs that support the environmental and city identity issues in the long term years to come. It is felt that we need to do more in regards to non-point nutrient and pesticide release into storm the watershed through the.control or education of usage, and development design considerations. Our lakes and streams are amenities that residents want to maintain as quality recreational resources.