- (a) Open space programs, especially in urban areas, have in the past tended to emphasize needs related to high intensity recreation. While recognizing the importance of these recreational uses, there is a parallel need for ecologically valuable lands which are also important to satisfy other human needs and maintain a high quality human environment.
- (b) It shall be the environmental policy of the Commonwealth to recognize metropolitan open space resources as lands both necessary to protect ecologic processes and necessary to satisfy a wide range of human needs.