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Focus Area 5: Natural Resources & Wildlife Conservation GOAL: Maintain, protect, and enhance the current wildlife diversity and <br />distribution within the City and protect natural resources. <br /> Objective 1: Maintain viable populations of plant and animal species, and to conserve, appropriately use, and protect fisheries, wildlife habitat and aquatic habitat. <br />Objective 2: Protect air quality, especially from automobile emissions. <br /> Objective 3. Conserve and protect the quality and quantity of all water sources. Objective 4: Conserve and protect minerals, soils and native vegetative communities <br />including forests. <br /> Objective 5: Conserve and properly manage resources for existing and future generations by supporting efforts for achieving energy conservation and sustainability and by implementing energy conservation measures and practices. <br /> <br />Objective 6: Conserve water and reduce per capita demand through techniques and programs to discourage high usage. <br /> Focus Area 6: Planning for the Future GOAL: Provide a high quality living environment for all residents by planning for future development and redevelopment to ensure a prosperous, sustainable, and resilient community. <br /> <br />Objective 1: Encourage the redevelopment and renewal of economically underutilized or blighted areas and encourage the elimination of uses inconsistent with the approved future land use plan. <br />Objective 2: Ensure the availability of suitable land for public utility facilities necessary to <br />support proposed future development and promote social interaction through site design. Objective 3: Discourage the proliferation of urban sprawl by encouraging infill development <br />and redevelopment. <br /> Objective 4: Protect residential areas from the negative impacts of encroachment by incompatible land uses. <br />Objective 5: Ensure the protection of its historic, cultural, and natural resources and <br />environmentally sensitive lands. <br />7