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• Lino Lakes /Rice Creek Watershed District Resource • • Management Plan (2008) The Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan (RMP) came about through a partnership between the RCWD and the City of Lino Lakes. This collaboration was initiated in 2006 and included extensive coordination between the City, the RCWD and other regulatory agencies. The RMP provides a watershed -based approach to wetland management that is consistent with RCWD and city goals. The approach uniquely addresses management in the context of wetland functions and the effects of anticipated future land use. The RMP and this Comprehensive Plan were prepared in concert with one another as the RMP modeled the potential effects of the city's proposed land use plan on water resources. The proposed land use plan was assessed under two scenarios — one withoutthe implementation of the watershed -based approach to wetland management provided for in the RMP and one with the RMP. The modeling assessment indicated that an RMP -based scenario would be necessary to maintain and protect priority resources within the city. This modeling effort resulted in an iterative process of adjusting the future land use plan and the RMP to achieve the resource management goals of RCWD and the city. The RMP was developed in close coordination with state and federal permitting authorities and has been prepared to be consistent with both state and federal wetland regulations. It is intended that components of the plan be incorporated into Clean Water Act Section 404 permit evaluations. The approach is unique as a means to develop a comprehensive wetland management plan according to the State of Minnesota Wetland Conservation Act because it not only includes the required assessment of existing wetland functions and values, but it also forecasts future wetland functions in light of the city's proposed land use plan and watershed - based approaches for no net loss of wetland function. This iterative collaboration between RCWD and Lino Lakes is intended to meet the following objectives: • Provide maximum consistency with the Minnesota Wetland Conservation Act (WCA) requirements for a Comprehensive Wetland Management Plan and no net loss in acreage and function of wetland resources • Be consistent with the Federal Clean Water Act requirements for Section 404 • Provide an implementation strategy for multiple Total Maximum Daily Load projects • Provide watershed -based context to the public Ditch Repair process proceeding on a parallel track • Through an iterative process, provide guidance to the City for ecological -based land use decisions during the Comprehensive Plan Update process • Provide stormwater management guidance to the City for the Comprehensive Plan Update requirements and municipal stormwater permitting The following contains a summary of the four major sections of the RMP: existing conditions assessment, future conditions assessment, wetland alternatives analysis, and implementation. The full RMP, including all figures, is located in Appendix A.