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• The Resource Management System This Comprehensive Plan provides a unified systems approach to natural resource management, commonly referred to as "green infrastructure ". This system plan provides a conservation design framework for the Comprehensive Plan that knits together the following major components: • The city's Local Surface Water Management Plan • The Rice Creek Watershed District /Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan (RMP) • The city's Parks, Natural Open Space /Greenways, and Trail System Plan Each of these major components is discussed in detail later in this Chapter following presentation of the Resource Management System Plan. These three elements, which make up the Resource Management System Plan, are discussed below, and are presented in Figure 2 -5. Greenways Given the natural history of the city and the current extent of wetlands, lakes, streams, and ditches, aquatic resources are the most prevalent natural system in Lino Lakes. The culmination of extensive scientific inquiry regarding the location, quality and function of upland and aquatic resources has resulted in the greenways identified in the Resource Management System Plan (see Figure 2 -7). This is a "working" multifunctional greenway corridor intended to provide areas for stormwater management, upland buffer areas for wetlands protection, conservation of natural and semi - natural areas, as well as open space and trails for people. The greenway corridor includes the following attributes: • Major and minor drainage routes that are the spine of the regional and local surface water management system providing areas for the natural movement of water. • The Wetland Preservation Corridor (WPC) — The WPC is a key outcome of the RMP. The WPC includes high priority wetlands with variable width buffer areas, selected marginally suitable development areas, and the 100 -year floodplain.. • Connections between parks, open space, and the WPC for the movement of people and wildlife (often combined with a trail). • Areas with low development suitability located outside the WPC. These areas contain a combination of rare species, natural and semi - natural habitat areas, and hydric soils. Parks and Trails The Resource Management System builds upon the city's Parks, Greenways and Trail System Plan. This plan was updated as part of the comprehensive planning process to reflect the additional demand for parks and recreation facilities that will occur from the growth that the city is anticipating and to incorporate the wealth of natural resource information gathered through the development suitability analysis and RMP. This additional information was used to modify the location of future parks, trails, and open space to maximize the ability of the city to create multifunctional greenway corridors for wildlife, trails, natural resource conservation and surface water management features. The location of existing and proposed parks and trails are depicted on the Resource Management System map (see Figure 2 -7).