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Goal 6: Pla 1 ► cress to local open spaces and lakes. • DRAFT — Goals and Strategies Lino Lakes 2030 Comprehensive Plan Page 7 Goal 4: Ensure that local streets are maintained (or reconstructed to) an acceptable level. Strategies: 1. Adopt, fund and steadfastly implement a Comprehensive Pavement Management Plan for the maintenance and reconstruction, to an optimum level, of the city's streets in a responsible and cost - effective manner. 2. Recognize that proper maintenance is less expensive in the long run than reconstruction after a street has been allowed to degrade. Once a street has been allowed to degrade to "poor ", maintenance is no longer effective, and the city's ability to reconstruct the street is severely limited. 3. Change the City Charter, as favored by 60% of the respondents in the Quality of Life Survey, so city council can plan for and fund (budget) street construction and maintenance in a responsible manner. This effort should be initiated by a citizen's group or task force that identifies options and advocates that the city council, the charter commission, and the community support a charter change proposal on the ballot. Goal S :'Reduce unnecessar\ traffic on Lino Lakes Strategies: 1. Plan for and develop park and ride opportunities that are adjacent to our east/west connectors. 2. Recognize, as affordable and life -cycle housing develops, the need for mass transit will increase and should be planned for on our east/west connectors. 3. Find ways to minimize unnecessary heavy vehicle traffic such as garbage haulers. 4. Appreciate mass transit is not likely to be self funding, but the city can seek to influence mass transit funding sources. Strategies: 1. Determine the need and plan for: a. off - street parking b. trail connections and loops c. access for bikers, walkers and runners d. better access to lakes e. improved canoe access points f. canoe launch sites to be developed wherever feasible. (Example: south end of Rice Lake) 2. Require developers to link to existing trails and extend them. City should develop more and better lake access; there may be state or county programs or department grants to help offset these costs.