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Conservation and Environment 1. To protect people and property from flood hazards. 2. To re-establish or re-create on-site channels in ways that will substantially enhance their geomorphology and riparian habitat value. 3. To maximize the habitat value and scenic quality of storm-water detention ponds. 4. To ensure that all significant, adverse project impacts are adequately evaluated and mitigated whenever possible. Implementation 1. To continuously and expeditiously pursue the use of all prudent funding sources for City-funded projects. The principles of New Urbanism, such as those that guided the Phase I Bernal Specific Plan, address a range of scales of development from the neighborhood to the region. However, the focus of New Urban open space is on small parks, squares and plazas rather than on large open space areas, since large acreage open spaces are so rare. The question for the Phase I1 Plan therefore becomes: how to integrate the Phase I1 grand park concept with the Phase I New Urbanism planning principles. The Design Team feels that the planning principles that should apply to the scale of the 318-acre Bernal grand park, as envisioned in the Draft Phase II Bernal Specific Plan, can be readily drawn from the icons of American urban parks. Appropriately, the principles fundamental to New Urbanism evolved during the same historical time frame as grand parks in the United States, and am therefore inherently consistent. Historical comparisons offer a unique perspective on the development of grand parks over time. Central Park (843 acres) and Prospect Park (526 acres) in New York, and Golden Gate Park (1,013 acres) in San Francisco are three comparable parks worth noting. Each was conceived and originally located on outlying parcels of land. Each site had a clearly defined boundary derived by the street grid that has not changed much over the life of the parks. Programming of each park has incrementally adapted to generational needs. Lastly, the forest canopy has matured. Today, the grand parks stand as timeless and dominating symbols of nature in the city. Over the past 150 years of growth and evolution, these parks have become the focus of and surrounded by community, even though the original intent was to create them in areas far away from the city centen Each of these parks have several features in common: cultural facilities such as museums and community centers, predominant systems of lakes and ponds, play fields, and circulation systems that separate vehicles and pedestrians. These parks serve a wide variety of organizations and populations and have become central in the 10