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Roseville2040ComprehensivePlanChapter8:Parks,Trails,andOpenSpace 6.2. Assess community needs and desires for the use of existing community facilities and the need for additional space, renovated space, and improved space. 6.3. Facilitate a system of community and recreation spaces in conjunction with the school districts that provides for both structured and unstructured times as managed and scheduled by the City. 6.4. Define a strategy, identify a site, and confirm a program for implementing a community center. 6.5. Manage and maintain facilities using best practices and cost-effective methods to provide desired recreation services. 6.6. Leverage private involvement in the form of sponsorships, joint ventures, and contract for services to support facilities. 7. Natural Resources Management Preserve significant natural resources, lakes, ponds, wetlands, open spaces, wooded areas, wildlife habitats, and trees as integral aspects of the parks system. Policies: 7.1.Encourage dedication of parks, open spaces, and trails in new development and redevelopment areas, especially those that preserve significant natural resources and/or adjacent to the subject site. 7.2.Create, adopt, and use Natural Resources Management Plans to preserve, restore, and manage the significant natural resources in the park system. 7.3.Preserve wooded areas and implement an aggressive reforestation and forestry management program to ensure that Roseville has a substantial aesthetically pleasing and environmentally critical tree population in its parks, open spaces, boulevards, and other City property. 7.4.* Provide community environmental education programs to increase the community’s awareness, understanding, and appreciation of natural areas, including the need for trees, proper tree care, plantings procedures, and critical habitat for pollinators. 7.5.Cooperate with the three watershed districts with jurisdiction over parks in Roseville to effect water quality improvement projects within parks, and to create landscapes that are sensitive to stormwater management goals for park lands. Work with the watershed districts to add features to parks that help park users appreciate the water quality improvements, focusing on features such as overlooks or seating areas that take advantage of view to surface water features, with educational and interpretive signage aimed at creating a better understanding of the need for attending to water quality in our parks and in the community. Work with the watershed districts to create park-like 11