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DRAFT - Goals and Strategies Lino Lakes 2030 Comprehensive Plan Page 12 Goal 4: Provide the City s residents and businesses with affordable potable water that is safe and high quality for daily consumption and lire demand._ Strategies: 1. Provide a low- maintenance, cost - effective water system that meets the long -term needs of the City's residents and businesses. 2. Provide adequate water pressure for all residents and businesses. 3. Continue working with adjacent communities to provide a cooperative water system for emergency services. 4. Provide water service for developing areas in a planned manner by constructing new mains, water towers, wells and water treatment plans. 5. Protect the City's sustainable water supply through conservation by reducing the demand for water, improving the efficiency of water use, and reducing loss and waste of water. 6. Protect the groundwater source from contamination by implementing the groundwater protection plan. Goal 5: Maintain the City's residents and'bustxes with an affordable and safe sanitary sewer system Strategies: 1. Provide a low - maintenance, cost - effective sewer system that meets the long -term needs of the City's residents and businesses. 2. Provide sanitary services to undeveloped areas in a planned manner. 3. Provide for the capacity and extension of sanitary sewer to developed areas of the city currently serviced by on -site systems. 4. Establish an on -site septic system inspection program to identify potential failing systems. 5. Where possible, direct public sanitary sewer improvements to areas identified as having failed on -site systems. Strategies: 1. Ensure that governmental buildings and services are located so as to offer ease of access and minimal response time. 2. Provide for adequate maintenance of the City's buildings and equipment and for their orderly replacement. 3. Plan for necessary new or expanded public facilities through an annual capital improvement program. 4. Hold public buildings to high architectural standards to create a sense of community identity, ensure land use compatibility, and to serve as examples for private development.