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- 3 - which are regional. Co�unity groups, such as athletic aesociations, service clubs, and othars provide special interest racreation programe The private sector plays a major role in che delivery oE recreation i' services (gol£ couraes, raquetball clubs, sports and health clubs, atc.). - A variety of federal, atate, regional and county grant programs have bean available to local unita of government for the acquiaition and devalopmant of recreation facilities...For .example, the annual LAWCON/LCIIIt appropriation to tha matropolitan area totals nearly $2 million. A special govarnor's court gamas program pravided naariy $1 million during 1977 and 1978 for tha davelopment o£ court gam�. ;y £acilities. Nearly $70 million dollara hava baan available ehrough `� the Metropolitan Council fos regional recreation facility acquisition and development since 1974. While the invasement made has b��n �ub- stantial, nearly avery eo�unity has "unmet neede." The comprahansiw plan should help identify thosa highest prioritq projecte vhich need to be undertaken, and help determine methods to make those proposed projecta a reality. _ The Metropolitan Council has the resnonsibiliCy for preparing thb Develooment Guide /Policv Plan for Recreation Open Space. Thia plan tries to address the•various subsystems which deliver park and recreation service to the reaidents of the metropolitan region. The current policy plan (prior to January, 1978� describes a system of regional parks and park reaerves throughout the metropolitan area• Amandments to the policq plan will address trail placuting, special re- - creation use facility planning, and historic park planning. The plan also describes a local recreation syatem in a ganeraT sense. Recreation apen apace sites which are exclusively local in �x nature and thus the responsibility of the local unit of government include mini-parka, neighborhood playgrounds, community playfielda, and co�unity parks. This local syatem, private recreation £aeilitine, plus the zegianal aystem, are the components of the metropolitan recse- ation opan space syatem. The purpose of this planning ef£ort is to insura that co�unitiea have a plan for the provision of local recreation opm apace areae, facilities, and programa consistant with the Metropolitan `� Council's adopted policies and the local co�unities' anticipated neada.