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• • • Lino Lakes Comprehensive Resource Management Plan The City of Lino Lakes is embarking on Comprehensive Plan update as required by the Metropolitan Council. As part of their comprehensive planning process the City is partnering with the Rice Creek Watershed District to provide the natural resources planning required in the Comprehensive Plan. The City admires the Resource Management Plan (RMP) approach to natural resources that has been developed by the RCWD for alternatives to ditch repair in other parts of the watershed. The City would like their Comprehensive Plan update to be based on conservation principles developed through an RMP. • Comprehensive Wetland Management Plan for WCA Permitting To realize the benefits of comprehensive planning from a state wetland permitting perspective, it is important for the Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan to be consistent with the Wetland Conservation Act's provision on CWMPs. The CWMP process includes several specific requirements related to wetland assessment and provides more flexibility when it comes to project permitting. • Clean Water Act ADID for Section 404 Permitting The 404 companion to this RMP could be an Advanced Identification (ADID). The reason for preparing the RMP in concert with the ADID process is to ensure a better degree of certainty for applicants proposing to develop their land. The federal process includes elements such as a Cumulative Impact Analysis and Alternatives Analysis which is much more rigorous than WCA requires. • Surface Water Management Plan The Surface Water Management Plan will include the work products required to meet the Metropolitan Council's standards for SWMPs. The level of modeling resolution as well as the infrastructure mapping and capital improvement planning elements require much higher level of specificity than most watershed modeling efforts. Modeling required for the Lino Lakes SWMP will be conducted as part of the RMP and used to support the City's Comprehensive Plan update. • TMDL Modeling for MPCA/USEPA Impaired Waters Standards (several water bodies in Lino Lakes) In preparing the RMP it is assumed all watershed modeling will be conducted to meet the needs of the forthcoming TMDLs. The approach is to utilize existing watershed models where available, build other necessary watershed models through other initiatives in the RMP (repair reports, SWMP, etc) and use it to conduct in -lake modeling. One of the goals of the TMDL is to shape land use and resource management decisions considered in Lino Lake's Comprehensive Plan update. RCWD Lino Lakes RMP Work Plan Page 2 of 10 1/2/2007