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Excerpts from Draft 2030 Comprehensive Plan of Lino Lakes existing ecological resources, priority areas for ecological protection within the City, action steps for protection of ecological systems, potential open space and greenway corridors, a framework for ecological restoration and management, and principles of and guidelines for conservation development. • Planned Unit Development (PUD) to promote Low Impact Design /Conservation Development Principles :The purpose of this approach to development is to preserve and enhance valued resources within new development. To preserve these areas, development uses low impact design principals, and /or is clustered on only a portion of the site, while environmentally sensitive areas are preserved as open space. The City of Lino Lakes has effectively used conservation subdivision techniques for the past several years to preserve or plan for the preservation of valuable resource areas. Incentives will apply to all development that is located within or adjacent to environmentally sensitive areas. Incentives may include density bonuses, reduced fees, an expedited permitting process, or flexibility regarding staging area boundaries and timing. • Rice Creek Watershed District Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan: As part of the integrated comprehensive planning process, the Rice Creek Watershed District prepared a Resource Management Plan to provide a watershed -based approach to wetland management. This process included an analysis of the city's future land use plan to determine the impacts of future growth on the area's aquatic resources. A key component of the plan is to establish a Wetland Preservation Corridor. This corridor may include high priority wetlands, natural open space (uplands), greenway connections, and marginally suitable development areas. The plan identifies several strategies to mitigate development impacts, particularly within the Wetland Preservation Corridor, as more fully described in Chapter 2: Resource Management System Plan. Infrastructure Capacity The availability of infrastructure will also be used to determine the timing and feasibility of new growth. As part of the comprehensive plan, the transportation, water, and sanitary sewer systems were analyzed to determine their capacity to accommodate the 2030 and full build -out growth forecasts. These systems are discussed more fully in Chapters 6, 7 and 8. Land Use and Transportation The city's Land Use Plan was analyzed to determine compatibility with the local transportation system. Based on this analysis, improvements to the transportation system were identified to accommodate additional growth in Lino Lakes. These improvements are discussed in the Transportation Chapter of this plan. Development review will include analysis of the transportation system and transportation improvements may be required as part of the development permitting process. Utility Staging The provision of sewer and municipal water service will be a key factor to determine the timing of future growth. As part of the Comprehensive Plan process, the future land use plan was analyzed to determine future water supply and wastewater infrastructure needs to accommodate new growth. These systems will need to be expanded to accommodate future development in the community. Therefore, a staging plan was developed to identify the sequence and anticipated timing of water and sewer provision. The staging area boundaries are based on the city's sewer 2