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with mixed use principles, and provision of extensive bicycle, transit and pedestrian facilities will encourage use of alternative modes, helping to protect air quality. Vision Statement on Parks and Open Space: "The City will continue to acquire and develop parks and open space throughout the urban area." Program consistency with Policies. This vision statement synthesizes growth management policy 18. "Public spaces such as parks, public and private open space and public facilities that can be reached without driving" are among the other "essential characteristics of mixed use development" that must be included in mixed use (nodal) development areas. (See Exhibit I-2) The Royal Plan, for example, provided for the acquisition and development of two neighborhood parks totaling five acres, identifies approximately 15 acres of linear open space along multi-use drainage channels within which bike and walking trails are proposed for construction, and provides access to more than 400 acres of wetland area through collaboration with Public Works in the design of the Checkermallow Observation Area and extension of the Amazon bike trail. Vision Statement on Public Safety. "The City will take additional steps to reduce not only crime, but the fear of crime and the likelihood of crime, through community-based policing practices." Program consistency with Policies. This vision statement synthesizes growth management policy 19. That policy is not directly implemented through the mixed use development program but is more sensitive and responsive to the City's community policing policies. Other Council Concerns 1. A general issue raised by several Councilors is whether any element of the Nodal Development program was changed in any way when the name was changed from "Nodal"Development to "Mixed Use" Development. The change of the program name from "nodal development" to "mixed use development" was discussed at the October 14, 2000 joint annual meeting of the Planning Commission and City Council. No objections to the program name change were raised at that time and the discussion produced a general endorsement of the name change by the Mayor. No element of the "nodal development" program was changed when the name was changed to "mixed use development." The goals, objectives and intentions of the program are unchanged. The specific elements of the program and the "Essential Characteristics of a Node" are also unchanged. A comparison of the information brochures from 2001 (when the program was named "nodal 12