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DRAFT - Goals and Strategies Lino Lakes 2030 Comprehensive Plan Page 9 2. Natural Resources and Amenities Goal 1: Identify, protect and resources of the community. Strategies: 1. Pursue a well - defined natural resource restoration and management plan for Lino Lakes. 2. Continue to provide natural resource staff and advisory board. 3. Maintain the partnership of Lino Lakes and Rice Creek Watershed District and other groups such as Anoka County to maintain the aquatic and upland areas of the city. 4. Establish and fund programs to maintain or improve current green spaces owned by the city. 5. Where possible, restore damaged or misused natural and ecologically significant areas to their original state. 6. Require natural space buffers, where appropriate, around wetlands. Goal 2: Initiate and continue vigorous collaborations and programs to address, restore, and preserve the water quality of the region's lakes, wetlands and other aquatic assets. Strategy: 1. Incorporate TMDL (total maximum daily load) limits, when determined, into the City's Surface Water Management requirements to reduce degradation and improve the quality of the city's and region's lakes, waterways and other aquatic resources. 2. Collaborate with adjacent jurisdictions and agencies to achieve TMDLs. 3. Land Use Policies and Practices Goal 1: Ensure that well - planned, quality' residential and accommodate ±he city s projected growth needs occurs ances the city's natural resources and amenities. Strategies: 1. Encourage developers, where appropriate, to use Open Space Design/Conservation Development Track practices. 2. Extend the Conservation Development principles, to the extent feasible, to business and commercial development. 3. Ensure the development of the land within the community is done in a way that consciously preserves its natural resources and amenities. 4. Require wetland functional assessments, based on accepted methodology, on new development projects to ensure valuable wetlands are preserved to the extent possible. 5. Promote business and commercial development that is conservation conscious, aesthetically interesting, and recognizes that each individual land use activity contributes to the total effect on the community's natural resources.