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Policy: Pursue a well- defined natural resource restoration and management plan consistent <br />with the RCWD /Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan (RMP). <br />Policy: Continue to provide natural resource staff and advisory board. <br />Policy: Maintain the partnership of Lino Lakes and Rice Creek Watershed District and other <br />groups such as Anoka County to maintain, restore, and manage the aquatic and upland areas of <br />the city. <br />Policy: Establish and fund programs to maintain or improve current green spaces owned by the <br />city. <br />Policy: Where possible, restore damaged or misused natural and ecologically significant areas to <br />their original state. <br />Policy: Require natural space buffers, where appropriate, around wetlands to preserve their <br />function and value. <br />Comp Plan Goal: Ensure that well - planned, quality residential, commercial, industrial and institutional <br />development to accommodate the city's projected growth needs occurs in a manner that also conserves <br />and enhances the city's natural resources and amenities. <br />Policy: Encourage developers, where appropriate, to use Open Space Design /Conservation <br />Development Model to implement the Resource Management System Plan. <br />Policy: Provide clearly defined incentives to achieve conservation development principles and <br />apply low impact development techniques, to the extent feasible, to all development. <br />Policy: Ensure the development of the land within the community is done in a way that <br />consciously preserves its natural resources and amenities. <br />Policy: Require wetland functional assessments, based on accepted methodology, on new <br />development projects to ensure wetland function and values are preserved to the extent <br />possible. <br />Policy: Promote business and commercial development that is conservation conscious, <br />aesthetically interesting, and recognizes that each individual land use activity contributes to the <br />total effect on the community's natural resources. <br />Policy: Recognize there are unique lands that the city /residents may not want to be developed: <br />a. Promote techniques that encourage developers to preserve the unique lands within their <br />development. <br />b. Partner with the Rice Creek Watershed District and /or other groups to purchase unique <br />ecological properties if they become threatened. <br />c. Develop innovative practices, when appropriate, to acquire unique lands to prevent <br />development. <br />d. Promote partnerships with established conservancy groups in order to "save" these unique <br />lands. Examples: Nature Conservancy. <br />City of Lino Lakes SWMP ; October 2011 1 9 <br />• <br />