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CONSERVATION AND OPEN SPACE GOALS, POLICIES, AND PROGRAMS Goal 1: Promote sustainability to preserve and protect natural resources and open space.28 Natural Resources Goal 2: Preserve and enhance the natural resources of the Planning Area, including plant and wildlife habitats, heritage trees, scenic resources, and watercourses. Policy 1: Preserve and enhance natural wildlife habitats and wildlife corridors. Program 1.1: Complete a comprehensive study of the ecosystems and wildlife habitat areas within and around the Planning Area, and develop and implement ordinances and policies that will provide for their preservation and enhancement. 29 Program 1.2: Identify land within the Planning Area which could be reclaimed as viable wildlife habitat. Study methods to re-establish viable plant and animal communities in these areas. Develop standards to accomplish habitat reclamation which: (1) specify the minimum acreage, topography, flora, fauna, and other characteristics necessary to ensure survival of wildlife habitat areas; (2) specify necessary length, breadth, flora, fauna, and other characteristics necessary to ensure the protection and use of wildlife corridors; and (3) prevent the creation of open space islands, unless they are connected through a series of viable wildlife corridors in accordance with specified standards. Program 1.3: Preserve and enhance the resource value of wetlands through project development design measures. These measures should be based in part on a jurisdictional wetlands delineation in accordance with current Army Corps of Engineers criteria, for projects which are known to have or that may have wedands present within their boundaries. Program 1.4: Develop and implement ordinances and policies that provide for the preservation of wildlife corridors and riparian vegetation, and establish mitigation requirements which minimize the barriers across wildlife corridors that roadways and developments can create. Program 1.5: Investigate eXlStlng private, State, and federal incentive programs and develop City incentive programs that encourage property owners to cooperate in the preservation and restoration of wildlife habitat. Program 1.6: Analyze potential impacts on wildlife populations and habitats before developing projects, using the CalifOrnia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process or other processes, as relevant. 28 Open space is any public or private land or water that is unimproved and devoted to open-space use. As discussed in this Element. pen-space lands include recreational open space, water management and recreation, agriculture and grazing,. public health and safety, and wildlands overlay. 2'J Wildlife habitat areas are those that provide the natural environment and conditions for animals to live. Con os Hement, CC 082906, dean VII-35 City Council 8/29/2006