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Chapter 11 RECREATION, PARKS, OPEN SPACE AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT 11 .7.2 Policies RPO-Pl: Create and maintain a comprehensive recreation plan which: • Incorporates new parks/recreational areas into growth planning • Establishes additional passive recreation sites and opportunities • Formulates recreational guidelines • Includes cooperation with county and city recreation districts and committees • Creates a long range vision for recreation RPO-P2: Consider recreation needs and the services the County is able to provide by developing a countywide recreation plan in coordination with other agencies and jurisdictions within Kittitas County. Recreation opportunities and facilities include, but are not limited to parks, trails, river access, public lands access, campgrounds and picnic facilities. RPO-P3: Recognize the important functions served by private and public open space, designate and map public and private open space of regional importance, and designate open space corridors within and around urban growth areas. RPO-P4: Provide a land use designation for public and private open space of regional/statewide significance. These areas are identified because their recreational, environmental, scenic, cultural, and other open space benefits extend beyond the local area . RPO-PS: Develop a program to identify and prioritize open space corridors and greenbelts within and between urban growth areas that include lands useful for recreation, wildlife habitat, trails, and connection of critical areas. 11.7.3 Natural Environment Kittitas County is blessed with an abundance of natural environments, ranging from shorelines and wetlands to shrub steppe habitat and important migration routes. Natural features, such as floodplains or steep slopes areas that are susceptible to landslides or erosion, also are considered as significant natural environments that are important to protect as Kittitas County develops in the future. Kittitas County protects its natural environments through a variety of plans and tools, ranging from an ongoing effort to document and map critical areas to the adoption of plans such as the County's Shoreline Master Program and Critical Areas Ordinance, both of which are incorporated by reference into this Comprehensive Plan. Shoreline Master Program A central planning and regulatory tool for the protection of shorelines is the County's Shoreline Master Program (SMP}. The SMP implements the statewide Shoreline Management Act of 1971, Chapter 90.58 RCW. Page 139 KITTITAS COUNTY 1'] Comprehensive Plan [i]