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10. Table 3-2 Existing District Facilities: Please add which city each facility is located in and any maintenance agreements that exist with that specific City. 11. Section 3.2.4 Flooding: Please add a discussion on Atlas 14 rainfall values and changing rainfall patterns and how that affects flooding within the District in the present and future. 12. Section 3.2.4.2. Impacts of land use changes: The City strongly encourages the District to delete this section. We would encourage the district to share information about flood prone areas, volume constrained locations, and other difficult drainage areas. The draft plan's emphasis on land use as the solution to these issues is presumptuous. The City (as the land use authority) would welcome all comments on land uses that are proposed with the City's comprehensive plan. Drainage issues are only one of a multitude of competing factors that determine proper land uses for a parcel. Until there is extensive study and conversation with municipalities about the District's desire to influence land use, we encourage,the District to eliminate any language that might sound like a predetermination to deny drainage permits due to authorized land uses. Clearly, the district can deny a drainage permit that doesn't meet district rules. This section appears pointless in its current form. 13. Section 3.2.5 Water Quality Management: Chloride and other emerging contaminants (such as E. coli) should be listed as an issue in this section. It seems these are going to become more of a concern in the future and the District should discuss how they will start handling these. 14. Table 3-3 RCWD Excess Nutrient TMDLs: Please add what city each waterbody is located in. 15. Section 3.2.5.5 Surface Water Monitoring: Discuss in greater detail what the revisions to the chloride management efforts will be in terms of monitoring and management. This could possibly be added to the Implementation Table to mark as a higher priority for the District. 16. Section 3.2.5.6 Thank you for recognizing the benefits of stormwater re -use to the regional drainage network. We appreciate the partnership with RCWD to build some of these systems. The City has multiple additional stormwater re -use retrofit projects it would like to build. Increased funding for these projects from partners such as RCWD will accelerate construction of these projects. 17. Section 3.2.6.2. Funding Distribution: The first factor listed for prioritizing funding is... location. The plan also states that decisions need to be made by geographic needs. Some clarity is needed here to explain how decisions are made to prioritize the needs of one location over another. We would encourage the District to incorporate some form of geographic equity within the plan to ensure that all portions of the region benefit from district projects in an equitable way. 18. Section 3.2.8.3. Permitting and Enforcement: The final policy listed in this section enables cities to assume responsibility to administer district rules. This program as administered by the City of Hugo is efficient. It streamlines the approval process, reduces redundancy, saves time, reduces development costs, promotes business activity within the city, and should also result in significant cost savings to the RCWD. The District should consider passing along a portion of these savings to the participating municipalities. 19. Section 3.2.9.2: Communication and outreach. The final "policy" in this section appears to be a statement. It is not a policy, and is out context. It is also opposed to the general theme of this section which focuses on sharing, openness, and transparency. 20. Table 4-1 Annual Budget: Suggest including funding to assist in City BMP maintenance projects. This could be related to water quality implementation prioritization. 21. Section 4.2.2 Modeling and Planning Program: Comprehensive Stormwater Management Plans can also allow for regional volume reduction projects (stormwater reuse) that generate volume reduction credits. If not in this section, some discussion and policy language should be added to talk about this opportunity and any additional