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CHAPTER 12
<br /> PARK DEVELOPMENT AND LAND ,!
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<br /> 12.1 INTRODUCTION any type of constructed improvements including buildings,
<br /> outdoor recreation facilities,roads,paths and the like.
<br /> Many of the recreation facilities in the Anoka County Park
<br /> System are in need of upgrading as a result of heavy use, Regional Park
<br /> changing safety and design standards,growing recreation Park land classified as a regional park serves a multi-
<br /> demand and changes in leisure time interests. The Anoka county area and is characterized, by the Metropolitan
<br /> County Parks and Recreation Department will pursue Council, as an area of natural or ornamental quality for
<br /> redevelopment of existing facilities, development of new nature-oriented outdoor recreation such as picnicking,
<br /> facilities and expansion of park lands in its effort to boating, fishing, swimming, camping and trail uses. A
<br /> continue to provide a high quality recreation service to the regional park is typically 200-1004 acres with a natural
<br /> county residents. setting contiguous to water bodies or water courses.
<br /> The 2020 Vision planning process has shown that county County Park
<br /> residents have a strong interest in outdoor recreation Land classified as a county park is an area of natural or
<br /> activities. The high percentage of family households,the ornamental quality for nature-oriented outdoor recreation
<br /> influx of new home buyers and the large population of such as limited primitive camping, picnicking, boating,
<br /> aging baby boomers suggests that recreation facilities must fishing, swimming and trail uses. Although the service
<br /> appeal to a broad cross-section of age groups. There is a areas are intended to be county-wide, in many cases the
<br /> need to serve children with an interest in activities such as county parks are used pnmanly by the communities that
<br /> swimming and active play;teenagers and young adults with surround them or are nearby. The park sites can be 10 to
<br /> interests such as roller bladmg and volleyball and older 200 acres in size and the settings are generally contiguous
<br /> adults with interests such as hiking and picnickingto water bodies or water courses.
<br /> The planning process also has shown that residents are Linear Park/Greenway
<br /> interested in natural resource based recreation activities Land classified as a linear park/greenway is developed for
<br /> such as hiking in natural areas and bird watching and that one or more varying modes of recreation travel such as
<br /> they support the protection and enhancement of natural hiking, biking, snowmobiling, horseback riding, cross-
<br /> areas in the park system. The mission statement prepared country siding, canoeing and driving or is intended to
<br /> during the planning process expresses this clearly by protect a sensitive,linearly occurring natural resource such
<br /> saying. The purpose of the Anoka County Park and as a wetland or upland native plant community. The
<br /> Recreation Department is to provide parks,open space and service area may be local or regional in scale. The linear
<br /> leisure services for the public. Our primary mission park/greenway must be of sufficient width and length to
<br /> encompasses the protection,preservation,and restoration provide maximum protection of resource or maximum use
<br /> of a natural,resource-based park system. as a trail corridor. Trail mutes may utilize man-made or
<br /> naturally occurring resources such as utility corridors,road
<br /> The Anoka County Parks and Recreation Department is rights-of-way, drainage ways, bluff lines, vegetation
<br /> pursuing improvements to recreation facilities throughout patterns,etc.
<br /> the various park types in the system. The park system is
<br /> comprised of the following park classifications: Special Feature
<br /> A special feature. is a specialized or single purpose
<br /> Regional Park Reserve recreation facility such as golf course, nature center,
<br /> Park land classified as a regional park reserve serves a marina,arboretum and sites of historic or archaeological
<br /> multi-county area and is characterized,by the Metropolitan significance. The service area may be county-wide or
<br /> Council, as an area of natural or ornamental quality for regional. The size of the site matches standards for a
<br /> nature-oriented outdoor recreation such as viewing and specific facility(e.g. golf course)or is determined by the
<br /> studying nature,wildlife habitat,conservation,swimming, area occupied by the featured item(e.g. historic building).
<br /> picnicking,hildng,boating,camping and trail uses. A park
<br /> reserve is over 1,000 acres in size and of sufficient area to The special features included in the Anoka County Park
<br /> encompass the resource envisioned for preservation. It hasSystem include 4-H Camp Salle in Martin Island Linwood
<br /> a diversity of unique resources,such as topography,lakes, Lakes Regional Park,Chamonix Golf Course in Rice Creek
<br /> streams and marshes. The Metropolitan Council requires Chain of Lakes Regional Park Reserve (RCCL), Wargo
<br /> that no more than 20%of the land area be developed with Nature Center in RCCL,%nfill House in Manomin County
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