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• Community forestry — conduct inventory, management plan with strategies for maintaining trees and encouraging diversity, mention in plan if strategies have been undertaken Skipped for now. If the City has undertaken any forestry planning or tree inventory, we should mention this in the Plan. • Native species support — develop policies for developers to use native plant species. List of places to incorporate guidelines provided. Skipped, could add language to goal 5 on page 4-2 if the City would like to be more specific with their pollinator policies. • Development and transportation policies to protect wildlife — list of guidelines provided Skipped. These City does not have goals in the Land Use or Transportation chapter to which these policies could be easily added. If the City would like to highlight the protection of wildlife, information could potentially be added to the natural resources section on page 2-18 of the Land Use Chapter. • Include supplied paragraph on groundwater management Groundwater Management paragraph included on page 6-3 of the Plan in the Water Resources Chapter. Blaine — no comment (appreciates stance on airport) MNDOT — no comment Other changes made to the plan to address general comments from Metropolitan Council to other communities: Housing: Added Housing Tools on page 3-9 and Housing Implementation Plan on page 3-10. These address requirements from the Met Council to include widely recognized housing tools(3-9), and to directly connect housing needs identified in the Plan with housing tools (3-10). Joe Polacek Urban Planner Direct: 612 712-2111 Stantec 733 Marquette Avenue Suite 1000 Minneapolis MN 55402-2309 Stantec The content of this email is the confidential property of Stantec and should not be copied, modified, retransmitted, or used for any purpose except with Stantec's written authorization If you are not the intended recipient, please delete all copies and notify us immediately 2