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Program 1.7: Minimize active recreation - sports, games, exercising, and fishing - within natural habitat areas.30 Permit passive recreation such as hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, nature and cultural resource study, photography, and picnicking. Program 1.8: Design site sensitive recreation or interpretive facilities to minimize intrusion within natural public open space." Lmit public access, including hiking trails, into sensitive habitat areas, when warranted. Program 1.9: Plant native species wherever possible in public and private landscaping, and provide wildlife habitat in new landscaping, where appropriate. Program 1.10: Design storm retention and drainage ponds, groundwater-recharge areas, and watercourses as wildlife habitats, when appropriate and environmentally sound. Program 1.11: Support appropriate development intensity adjacent to areas designated as Wildlands Overlay. Policy 2: Preserve heritage trees throughout the Planning Area. Program 2.1: Strongly encourage preservation of heritage trees; where preservation is not feasible, the City will require tree replacement or a contribution to the Urban Forestry Fund. The City encourages no net loss of trees. Program 2.2: Follow the provisions of the City's Heritage T Tee Ordinance, Pleasanton Municipal Code Chapter 17.16, Tree Preservation, when reviewing future development projects. Policy 3: Preserve and enhance streambeds and channels in a natural state, except where needed for flood and erosion control. Program 3.1: Develop and implement ordinances and policies that provide for the preservation and restoration of riparian corridors, and establish mitigation requirements for modifications to such corridors. Program 3.2: Develop policies and standards in cooperation with Zone 7 that include restoring riparian corridors when flood- and erosion-control activities require channelization. Program 3.3: Utilize habitat preservation and reclamation measures when designing flood- and erosion-control projects to limit impacts on plants and wildlife. Program 3.4: Design projects adjacent to the arroyos to protect habitat areas. 30 Natural habitat areas are those that provide the natural environment and conditions for plants and/or animals to live. 31 Natural open space is any public or private land or water that is unimproved and devoted to open-space use. Con os Element, CC 082906, clean VII-36 City Council 8/29/2006