Laserfiche WebLink
HARRISBURG AREA LAND USE PLAN <br />6.7 PARKS, RECREATION, GREENWAYS AND OPEN SPACE <br />(PR -1) Ensure consistency in plans for parks, recreation, greenways and <br />open space. <br />■ Build on the ideas expressed by the community through this plan, just as this plan <br />builds on previous planning efforts and adopted plans. Future efforts to create or <br />update plans that address parks, recreation, greenways, and open space should <br />likewise build on this HALUP. <br />(PR -2) Plan for greenway, pedestrian and bicycle paths linking <br />neighborhoods through an interconnected network within floodplain <br />corridors, utility easements, and road rights -of -way. <br />■ Update the Harrisburg bicycle /pedestrian plan to a planning area -wide greenway, <br />trails and bicycle master plan, including connections of and to the Carolina Thread <br />Trail, and program capital improvements for greenway, pedestrian and bicycle <br />facilities. <br />■ Locate all park facilities close to greenways to provide efficient non - vehicular <br />access. <br />■ Coordinate access easements for greenways with utility companies and developers <br />platting utility easements and common area for floodplains, buffers, and <br />stormwater management. <br />(PR -3) Strategically work with private and public recreation providers to <br />create high- quality recreation opportunities to all residents while <br />reducing fiscal impacts. <br />■ Follow strategic steps outlined in the upcoming Park and Recreation Master Plan to <br />ensure a town -wide equitable public park system that provides adequate space and <br />facilities to meet future demand based on projected population growth in the <br />planning area. Explore all grant and funding opportunities in detail with the <br />upcoming Park and Recreation Master Plan. <br />■ Consider the preservation of large privately -held open spaces through land <br />donation, buy -out, easement, deed restrictions, etc. (See Recommendation ENR -6 <br />for additional preservation tools.) <br />■ Adopt a policy to provide a park, conserved open space, or greenway within 1 /2 mile <br />of every residential home within the planning area. <br />■ Encourage developers to provide open space in subdivisions. <br />■ Encourage developers to build public parks within planned communities with park <br />and recreation amenities and provide greenway connections to the non - motorized <br />transportation system. <br />PART VI: RECOMMENDATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AUGUST 2010 <br />Attachment number 1 <br />G -1 Page 379 <br />