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• • • Ordinances: The City will review and update its ordinances to be consistent with the revised Comprehensive Plan. Through ordinance standards and the development review and permitting process, the City is able to implement many of the goals and policies included in the Plan, including the dedication of new parks, open space and trails and protection of natural features, such as wetlands, woodlands, and wildlife and plant habitats. In addition to ordinances protecting natural features, environmental protection within the city may also be supported through the incorporation of green building techniques to reduce the impacts of development and redevelopment. To promote attractive, quality development that enhances the character of Lino Lakes, landscape and design standards will also be reviewed and updated. • 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 In addition to the protection of natural resources, many participants of the Visioning and Comprehensive Plan processes expressed concern about the capacity of the city's infrastructure to accommodate new growth in the community. 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 (Figure 3 -4). The staging area boundaries are based on the city's sewer districts, current development patterns, and land needed for forecasted development. The staging plan establishes the pattern, timing, and location of future growth to 2030 and beyond.