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• 3. Goals and Policies <br />Environmental Protection Objectives <br />1. To conserve unique and essential natural resources. <br />2. To protect people and property from excessive noise, pollution and natural hazard. <br />3. To improve the health of residents and those who work within the city. <br />Environmental Protection Policies <br />1. Minimize runoff velocities from newly developed sites. <br />2. Require stormwater management and erosion control plans for all new developments. <br />3. Encourage retention of precipitation as practicable by providing additional storage <br />either on-site or through the construction of a comprehensive retention area with new <br />development or redevelopment. <br />4. Minimize storm water run-off from single-family residential properties by limiting <br />impervious coverage and encouraging practices and technologies that retain <br />precipitation on site. <br />5. Encourage the removal and replacement of diseased trees on street rights-of--way and <br />on private property. <br />• 6. Identify and encourage preservation of trees in excess of 50 years old, whenever <br />possible. <br />7. Maintain wildlife populations. <br />8. Monitor air quality at Snelling/Larpenteur Avenues and upgrade the intersection to <br />assure that ambient pollution levels are not substantially increased. <br />9. Consider solar access protection and the use of vegetation to facilitate summer <br />shading and winter solar gain when reviewing plans for existing development, new <br />development and redevelopment. <br />10. Provide for open transitional space between new development and existing <br />neighborhoods, to preserve the urban/rural character of the City and to improve <br />opportunities for active living. <br />11. Encourage "green building" practices in new development by providing regulatory <br />incentives to develop in environmentally friendly ways. <br />12. Support ametropolitan-wide integrated waste management program comprised of <br />waste reduction, resource recovery, recycling and limited landfilling. <br />13. Continue to promote a curbside recycling program and encourage on-site <br />management and/or recycling of yard wastes. <br />14. Maintain open space views especially along the south side of Larpenteur Avenue as a <br />• means to protect the urban/rural character of the City. <br />Falcon Heights Comprehensive Plan Draft January, 2008 Page IV - 9 <br />Part IV: Parks, Community, Economic Development, Implementation, Appendices <br />