The League urges the County and municipalities to:

• Prepare local open space plans based on a systematic inventory of open lands with scenic, recreational, historical, environmental, and other natural/cultural resource values. The County’s “Patterns for Westchester” is considered a good comprehensive plan.
• Pursue opportunities to increase open space funding. The County should keep its promise to allocate $10 million per annum to open space spending. Efforts should also be make to increase federal, state and New York City funding for watershed preservation.
• Reclaim unused commercial sites as open space and parkland.
• Require that all new development or redevelopment of open space include enhanced public access.
• Continue to lobby the state and federal government to provide funding to clean up David’s Island.
• Continue to expand the RiverWalk on the Hudson River and implement the Westchester RiverWalk Design Guidelines.
• Continue to support the preservation of the Angle Fly Preserve.