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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 to preserve their function and value. 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. Rationale: The region's lakes, wetlands, and protected uplands occupy nearly 46% of the city's total area and provide Lino Lakes with a character and ambience unequalled within the region. The deterioration of these vital assets would diminish the city aesthetically and emotionally. As the city inevitably grows and progresses to 2030, the preservation of these aquatic and upland assets is vitally important to maintaining a distinctive feature of the city its citizens cherish. Policies: 1. Establish a surface water management system consistent with the RMP 2. Apply the Resource Management Unit recommendations from the RMP to meet RMP goals for aquatic resource protection and management. 3. 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. 4. Collaborate with adjacent jurisdictions and agencies to achieve TMDLs. 2030 Vision for Land Use Policies and Practices Lino Lakes has enhanced and preserved the quality of its natural resources and amenities and achieved a well planned community through anticipating, planning for, and balancing the needs for natural resource protection with the need to accommodate growth. Goal 1: Ensure that well - planned, quality residential, commercial, industrial and institutional development to accommodate the city's projected growth needs occurs in a manner that also conserves and enhances the city's natural resources and amenities. Rationale: The types of uses that occur on the city's available and developable land are vital factors affecting the ability to restore, preserve and enhance these resources and amenities. Policies: 1. Encourage developers, where appropriate, to use Open Space Design /Conservation Development Model to implement the Resource Management System Plan. 2. Provide clearly defined incentives to achieve conservation development principles and apply low impact development techniques, to the extent feasible, to all 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 wetland function and values are preserved to the extent possible. 2 -4 • • •