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Plan Element 4: Kittitas County's Strategic Role in Recreation and Tourism <br />4.0 OBJECTIVE: The County should undertake a strategic approach to open space, trail, park, and recreation <br />facilities and recreation services where Kittitas County assumes responsibility for functions of countywide <br />interest where there are no other viable sponsors and helps coordinate or support functions and activities that <br />have other viable sponsors. <br />Action Item 4.1 Coordinate activities <br />Take the lead role in providing information and coordinating services for open space, trail, park facilities, <br />and recreation program activities on a countywide basis. Update future population growth estimates, <br />inventory existing and proposed facility developments, identify probable countywide and regional facility <br />and program needs, and proposals of countywide facility and program solutions in each five-year plan <br />update. <br />Action Item 4.2 Planning and development services <br />Provide detailed planning and development services when: <br />4.2.1: There are no other designated agencies or organizations who can, or <br />4.2.2: The activity involves site controversies or environmental consequences that may not be equitably <br />resolved otherwise within Kittitas County. <br />Action Item 4.3 Development, operation, and maintenance <br />Help develop, operate, or maintain open space, trail, park, or recreational facilities or recreation program <br />activities provided: <br />4.3.1: The facility will have broad benefits for a large proportion of the countywide population and will be <br />financed using resident approved methods, or <br />4.3.2: Facility development and operating costs will be recaptured from direct charges of the populations <br />who use the facility, or <br />4.3.3: Facility development and operating costs will be compensated in some manner through inter -local <br />agreements with the using agency, area or benefiting user group, particularly where the demands will <br />originate from a county service requirement, or <br />4,3.4: The site or facility has intrinsic value apart from traditional operation and maintenance needs, such as <br />a passive natural area or wetland preservation. <br />The following goals and objectives are based on a strategic approach to countywide services, an analysis of <br />existing open space, trail, park, and recreation conditions, and the results of workshop planning sessions <br />and surveys. <br />14 <br />