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• • DRAFT — Goals and Strategies Lino Lakes 2030 Comprehensive Plan Page 10 2. Natural Resources and Amenities preserve the desirable natural areas and ecological and aquatic Strategies: 1. Pursue a well - defined natural resource restoration and management plan for Lino Lakes. 2. Continue to staff an environmentalist and maintain a city environmental board. 3. Maintain the partnership of Lino Lakes and Rice Creek Watershed District and other groups such as Anoka County to maintain the aquatic and upland areas of the city. 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 address, r aquatic assets. ore, and Strategy: 1. Within the resource management plan (RMP) created by the conservation -based partnership between Lino Lakes and the Rice Creek Watershed District, include a component that incorporates TMDL (total maximum daily load) constraints to halt the degradation and achieve restoration of the ecological health of the city's and region's lakes, waterways and other aquatic resources. 3. Land Use Policies and Practices Goal 1: Ensure that well - planned. qua l den #' esi pevel ' projected gr wth' needs also co accommodate the c' ., � � � � rues ari J' ors; •. � enhances the city's al resour^ d amenit Strategies: 1. Encourage developers, where appropriate, to use Open Space Design/Conservation Development Track practices. 2. Extend the Conservation Development principles, to the extent feasible, to business and commercial 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. Continue application of the MNRAM (Minnesota Routine Assessment Methodology) program to ensure valuable wetlands are preserved.