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City of Mounds View <br />1010.02 1010.02 <br /> <br /> <br /> recreational and economic assets for existing and future residents of the community and the <br />Rice Creek Watershed District. The City Council has in mind its statutory obligation to <br />comply with Chapters 104, 105 and 112 of Minnesota State Law, the regulations of Rice <br />Creek Watershed District, Regulations of the Department of Natural Resources, including <br />provisions for protected waters, Public Law 92.500 (Federal Water Pollution Control Act), <br />open space policies of the Metropolitan Council and its guidelines encouraging protection <br />and enhancement of marshes, wetlands in the flood plain area and the public interest in <br />preventing irreparable destruction or deterioration of valuable natural resources. <br /> <br /> b. The public interest necessitates sound land use development, as land is a limited and <br />irreplaceable resource, and the land within the Municipality is a resource to be developed in <br />a manner which will result in minimum damage to the quality of life, property, threat to <br />health and reduction of private/public economic loss caused by drainage problems. <br /> <br />Subd. 2. Purposes: Therefore, recognizing the obligation to protect these assets and natural <br />resource gifts from destruction or deterioration and pollution of all kinds, the purposes of <br />this Chapter are: <br /> <br /> a. To preserve wetlands in as natural a state as possible; <br /> <br /> b. To serve as natural retention and detention areas for surface waters; <br /> <br /> c. To regulate the use of areas adjacent to the wetlands in order to protect and enhance the <br />natural function of the wetlands; <br /> <br /> d. To provide for the protection, preservation, proper maintenance, use and enhancement of <br />wetland zoning districts; <br /> <br /> e. To minimize the disturbance to them and to prevent or minimize damage from excessive <br />sedimentation, eutrophication or pollution; <br /> <br /> f. To prevent loss of aquatic organisms, wildlife and vegetation or the habitats of the same; <br /> <br /> g. To provide for the protection of surface and ground water supplies from the danger of <br />drought, overdraft, pollution or mismanagement; <br /> <br /> h. To secure safety from floods; <br /> <br /> i. To reduce the financial burdens imposed upon the community through rescue and relief <br />efforts occasioned by the occupancy or use of areas subject to periodic flooding;