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Centerville 2040 Chapter 2: Goals and Policies <br /> • Coordinate with partner organizations to Pprotect Centerville Lake, Peltier <br /> Lake, and Clearwater Creek for future generations to enjoy. <br /> • Promote and implement sustainable practices through education, by <br /> example and use of eco-friendly products on public lands. <br /> • Protect environmental systems from unnecessary impacts of future growth <br /> and development activities. <br /> • Protect the surface waters, ground waters and wetland areas of the City to <br /> promote aesthetic qualities, natural habitat areas, ground water recharge <br /> and recreation opportunities. <br /> • Protect ground water purity by preventing erosion and improper <br /> discharge of sedimentation into ours local lakes and streams. <br /> • Maintain the valuable open space of the community. <br /> It is the policy of the City of Centerville to: <br /> • Carefully manage any development affecting floodplains, steep slopes, <br /> wetlands, and other environmentally sensitive areas. <br /> • Adopt and enforce wetland alteration and mitigation requirements <br /> consistent with the Wetlands Conservation Act**. <br /> • Enforce erosion and sedimentation control standards consistent with <br /> MPCA's ''best management practices.'' <br /> • Require that stormwater ponds meet the design standards of the National <br /> Urban Runoff Program (NURP) <br /> • Enforce shoreland management regulations along Centerville Lake, Peltier <br /> Lake, Clearwater Creek and County Ditch No. 47. <br /> • Establish landscaping requirements for all new residential and commercial <br /> developments that address the management of surface water run-off and <br /> other harmful side effects. <br /> • Give preference in surface water management systems design to surface <br /> drainage, vegetation, and infiltration rather than buried pipes and man- <br /> made materials and facilities. <br /> •—P-rate----ptan-ned-----t+Rit-----deveaap t;___-c-aus-te-ring___-cancopts;----- nd-----tithe-r <br /> pretection of natural....reseurc.es and....protectlo.n of open spaces: <br /> • Enforcelocal water.. plan. .regulations consistent <br /> with the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) Plan and the RCWD Rules. <br /> .Implement the City's Surface Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP), <br /> and Surface Water Management Plan. <br /> • Coordinate with the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) and <br /> Department of..Natu.ra.l. Resources..(DNR)..to identify impaired..waterbodies. <br /> and secure grant funding to_i_mprove those impaired waterbodies.. <br /> Chapter 2 1 Page 8 <br /> 82 <br />