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, . Chairman Wilson and .mbers of the Commission . City of LaPorte Page 20 are not located so as to provide the highest and best use of certain property; that when Greenway Corridors are located by the Comprehensive Plan on the zoning map, that the City of La Porte should purchase them: and there should be no additional setback requirements imposed on uses located adjacent to Greenway Corri- dors. It is clear that a definition for Greenway Corridor needs to be included in the Ordinance. Further, the Ordinance contains detailed and complex requirements regarding said Corridors. These requirements need to be discussed very carefully by the Planning and Zoning Commission and a determination needs to be made regarding the relationship of these Ordinance sections to the goals established in the Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehen- sive Plan establishes city-wide networks for open space, recrea- tional facilities, parkland, and conservation needs. If these goals are to be adopted as desirable by the City Council, provi- sions should be made for parkland location, open spaces, recrea- tional facilities, and conservation areas and other areas of scenic preservation on the map and within the text of the Zoning Ordinance. The Steering Committee, based upon the recomendation from the planning consultants, adopted these objectives as sound. The Planning and Zoning Commission, when it passed the Open Apace and Pedestrain System Plan, the Recreational Facilities Plan, and the Beautification and Conservation Plan also adopted inclusion of these amenities and needs as a litigimate goal for the City of La Porte. The Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map as proposed attempts to provide for the above-mentioned goals and needs, and also attempts to establish locations for these ameni- ties. As proposed, Greenway Corridors are locations of parks, conservation areas and related open spaces upon certain desig- nated zoning map locations. The vast majority of these map designations are included in currently existing public right-of- way. The Ordinance also requires that properties developed adjacent to any designated Greenway Corridor at a minimur.1 setbac]< of twenty (20) feet from said Corridor. The setback is from either the Greenway Corridor itself or the rightof-way line. The setback pertains to all developments, from single family residential to industrial. Maintenance of the setback areas is by private citizens and by the public sector on the public right- of-ways. This maintenance scenario sets up a situation of ack- ward maintenance responsibility. ANALYSIS: Greenway Corridors need to be defined in the Ordinance. All Greenway Corridors should be privately owned and subject to the setback requirement, except for Greenway Corridors located adjacent to single family residential developments, in which case the setback would only apply if the development is located adjacent to a designated conservation district, located as such on the zoning map. In the case of multi-family developments, the setback would apply next to the Greenway Corridor, however, the mul ti- family developer would receive credit under the Parkland Dedication