(A) To provide for efficiency, economy and amenity, it is the intent of these regulations to encourage and promote the development and maintenance of public open space systems.
(B) It is intended that to the maximum extent reasonably feasible there shall be a continuous network of public lands adapted to multiple purposes, including preservation and maintenance of natural waterways and water areas, protection of watersheds, neighborhood or community service areas and other public uses requiring extensive open space.
(C) It is further intended that these regulations shall encourage and promote consolidation, combination and coordination of quasi-public and private common open space with the public land network where appropriate. The purposes of such action shall include the following, applied generally or under particular sets of circumstances:
(1) To increase the extent, effectiveness and amenity of the total open space network;
(2) To provide protection for areas of substantial ecological importance; and
(3) To minimize conflicts among automotive traffic, pedestrians and cyclists, and to provide safe, convenient movement systems for pedestrians and cyclists through open spaces not generally open to automotive traffic, in a pattern connecting their principal origins with destinations such as schools, parks and recreational facilities; and otherwise to ensure the advantages arising from an open space network with multiple potentials for public use and reuse, as contrasted with scattered open spaces serving only limited functions.
(Ord. No. 1941, § 1, passed 1-12-1989)