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To: Plan Reviewers From: Karen Chandler, on Behalf of Grass Lake WMO Board Subject: Grass Lake WMO Board Responses to Comments on Draft Watershed Management Plan Date: December 26, 2000 c: Grass Lake WMO Board and Staff Page: 5 are the LGUs responsible for administering the Wetland Conservation Act (WCA) and the GLWMO Board meetings are infrequent, the GLWMO is not proposing to review WCA applications. Management of wetlands (including "protect" wetlands) is addressed in Table 5-7, and will be further addressed in the cities' future wetland management plans. The GLWMO considered providing specific buffer widths earlier in the planning process, but felt it would be better for the cities to specify buffer widths. The City of Roseville has shoreland, wetland protection, and stormwater overlay districts that include wetland buffer widths (setbacks) of 50 feet. The GLWMO Board and the member cities understand the value of wetland inventories and wetland management plans, but believe that the member cities should complete the inventories and plans, not the GLWMO. In agreement with this philosophy, Section 5.5, policy 3, of the GLWMO plan requires the member cities to inventory and classify wetlands, either as part of their local plamling process, or as an implementation task to be completed within two years of local plan adoption. The cities will be able to use their wetland management plans to revise overlay districts. 4. GLWMO Development of Model Ordinances/Standards Reviewer Comments: Reviewer Location(s) in Comment Letter Comments BWSR Items circled "4" Tl1e BWSR suggests that the GLWMO develop a stormwater ordinance specifically aimed at redevelopment. Met Council Items circled "4" The Met Council believes that the "GLWMO should work with both member cities to help them to develop stormwater management ordinances consistent with the Met Council's hiterm Strategy." The Met Council also would like to receive a copy of Rosevitle's new stormwater ordinance (their review of Roseville's comp plan required the city to develop such an ordinance). GLWMO Response to Comments: Rather than develop model ordinances specifically for use in the GLWMO, the GLWMO Board prefers to refer its member cities to existing model ordinances. Also, the member cities look to one another's existing ordinances for guidance when they are revising their ordinances. There are other avenues besides WMO requirements that will convince the member cities to develop the necessary ordinances. For example, the Met Council requires cities to adopt certain ordinances as part of the comprehensive plan process (this is true for the city of Roseville) and the MPCA's implementation of the NPDES Phase II regulations will require the member cities to adopt stormwater ordinances.