Passive Parks

3.7.3 Passive Parks
3.7.3.1 Objective
Passive Parks provide opportunities for unstructured recreational activities that may include walking, cycling and relaxing outdoors. Larger grassed areas will also provide places for outdoor games and activities that do not require additional infrastructure, but should include resting
areas. Linear parks are considered a specific form of passive park, whereby their configuration is long and narrow and their purpose is to provide for non-structured, recreational opportunity (cycling, walking, running etc.), non-consumptive recreational activity (relaxing, environmental observation etc.) and pedestrian connectivity.

3.7.3.2 Policies
a. As a stand-alone park, passive areas should be a minimum of 1 Acre. If integrated into a linear park system, as a window or node along a linear park, this space may be 0.5 Acres.
b. Parks and pathways will provide opportunities for non-programmed sports, walking and cycling, public access to the local retention ponds and the Seine River and connections to the adjacent neighbourhoods.
c. Pathway surfacing shall be appropriate to the context and determined, in consideration of City guidelines and standards, at the development approval stage.

d. To balance the provision of active and passive parks, generally a minimum of 30% of the parks within the Precinct should be established as passive park space. When assessing park allocation adjacent to the Seine River or contributing to the Seine River Greenway, it is acknowledged that this percent may be adjusted in recognition of the more passive nature of these lands.
e. Parcels adjacent to the Seine River (see 3.9) shall provide their required park dedication as linear park, to expand the park corridor along the Seine River in order to establish a greenway and allow for a connection to the Bois-des-Esprit trail system and natural
forest area in Royalwood, in accordance with the following:
 Parcels adjacent to the Seine River shall provide their required park dedication along and abutting the green space acquired by the City (CWWAL – policy 3.9.1.2. (a)), unless existing development precludes the continuance of the path adjacent to the Seine River.
 In areas where development precludes the continuance of the linear park along the Seine River, required park dedication should be located to allow for the continuance of the greenway and trail network elsewhere on the parcel. This alternative location should take advantage of natural areas and mature tree stands along the Seine River.
 The dedicated park adjacent to the Seine River shall be reserved for the trail, tree planting and naturalization, benches and other community amenities.
 Additional dedication, not required to accommodate the continuance of the greenway and trail, should be directed to areas with mature tree stands.
 Larger Parks connecting to the greenway may be provided to create nodes along the river trail for paddle craft docking, parking, or interpretive facilities.