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1010.02 1010.02 <br />1010.02: FINDINGS OF FACT; PURPOSE: <br />Subd. 1. Findings: <br />a. The Council finds that wetlands within the City, as part of the ecosystem, are <br />critical to the present and future health, safety and general welfare of the land, animals <br />and people within the City, as well as within the Rice Creek Watershed District, that <br />existing and potential development within the City and Rice Creek Watershed possess <br />increasing ecological and economic problems and demands, having the effect of <br />potentially despoiling, polluting, accelerating the aging, eliminating or negatively and <br />irretrievably altering both the wetlands and their functions (and the processes associated <br />therewith) which, if managed, will constitute important physical, educational, ecological, <br />aesthetic, recreational and economic assets for existing and future residents of the <br />community and the Rice Creek Watershed District. The City Council has in mind its <br />statutory obligation to comply with Chapters 104, 105 and 112 of Minnesota State Law, <br />the regulations of Rice Creek Watershed District, Regulations of the Department of <br />Natural Resources, including provisions for protected waters, Public Law 92.500 (Federal <br />Water Pollution Control Act), open space policies of the Metropolitan Council and its <br />guidelines encouraging protection and enhancement of marshes, wetlands in the flood <br />plain area and the public interest in preventing irreparable destruction or deterioration of <br />valuable natural resources. <br />b. The public interest necessitates sound land use development, as land is a limited <br />and irreplaceable resource, and the land within the Municipality is a resource to be <br />developed in a manner which will result in minimum damage to the quality of life, <br />property, threat to health and reduction of private/public economic loss caused by <br />drainage problems. <br />City of Mounds View <br />