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The suburban municipalities also had plans and strategies to create networks of green spaces. In these rapidly growing communities, planners, politicians and community leaders sought to protect elements of the natural landscape as suburban development proceeded. Each municipality used various means to protect natural areas and to provide parks, sports fields and quiet places for community residents. Each also sought to expand traditional parks and open space lands by innovative means, for example, by designing naturalistic storm water management ponds such as the Monahan Drain constructed wetland that not only enhances water quality, but also provides habitats for urban wildlife and opportunities for leisure. Transportation and utility corridors such as West Hunt Club Road and the abandoned rail corridor have been designed to include recreational pathways to link communities and support cycling.
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