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• • with residents for the residential components (disconnected downspouts, driveway runoff) and street side infiltration and biofiltration areas. 3. Establish a clean lakes fund (similar to a stormwater utility) through a City fee that is used to pay for local stormwater plans. The City designs, installs and maintains the stormwater features included in the neighborhood plan. To those willing to agree to maintenance agreements, a fee reduction would serve as an incentive. 4. Establish the green infrastructure program with City staff able to conduct design, inspection, and maintenance. 5. Establish Clean Water Act Nondegradation compliance program to include the established goals for each aquatic resource, the timetable for eliminating stormwater discharges, a resource monitoring schedule, and reporting program. 6. Establish a volume reduction overlay. Volume reduction will lead to nutrient load reduction which will contribute to meeting TMDL load reduction goals. Some areas of the volume reduction overlay will serve to reduce volume effects on sensitive wetlands under existing conditions. In other areas, the overlay will reduce existing or potential future flooding and capacity exceedance of the agricultural ditches and other conveyance systems. Wetland Preservation Corridor Overlay In open space and park land areas of the City, the green infrastructure program will protect high priority wetlands, their biological condition, and will balance their function as high quality habitat, natural flood reduction and water quality improvement components in the landscape. Further refinement of corridor linkage areas, shape, and size shall occur with green infrastructure implementation, through a combination of City Board's review of plats and City initiatives for setting aside multifunctional greenway corridors (volume reduction stormwater features, passive trails and open space, wetland and volume banking sites). Where rare and endangered animal species movement patterns (e.g. Blanding's turtle) need to be considered, corridor linkages will be established in consultation with wildlife habitat specialists. The process for establishing the Wetland Preservation Corridor, including wetland regulatory requirements and permitting process is detailed in the Lino Lakes RMP Rule. Mn /DOT and County Transportation The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn /DOT) is the WCA LGU for wetland impacts within its right -of -way (ROW). Mn /DOT and County projects that propose to disturb wetlands within their ROW will continue to apply the wetland mitigation standards found in WCA, not the wetland mitigation standards specified by the watershed rules, unless it elects to apply the RMP Rule. All other Rules adopted by RCWD will continue to apply for Mn /DOT and County projects within the District boundary. Land Owners The RMP provides expanded benefit opportunities to landowners, in addition to the traditional benefit of wetland drainage. As the watershed land uses affecting these ditches continue to lose agricultural use to urban use, each parcel can derive benefits differently depending on the specific land characteristics of the parcel. Benefits are available for landowners who may need opportunity areas for volume control and also landowners who have volume control opportunities to offer. The RMP provides the wetland and open space corridors sought by potential buyers of new, suburban lots which benefits landowners of both developable and preservation land. It also provides landowners who own extensive partially drained wetlands a framework to benefit from watershed -based volume control banking and wetland mitigation credit banking. The volume and wetland banks are eligible for use by landowners in other parts of the watershed and the state metro wetland bank program.