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To: Plan Reviewers Fromt 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: 10 9. GLWMO Role in Connecting Land Use Planning to Stormwater Management Planning Reviewer Comments: Reviewer Location(s) in Comment Letter Comments BWSR Items circled "9" The BWSR believes the GLWMO plan should inclltde an inventory of park management plans to allow for cost effective implementation of stormwater management projects by partnering with or adding to park improvement programs. The BWSR suggests that the GLWMO develop a map of redevelopment opportunities, since they provide opportunities to improve stormwater management. GLWMO Response to Comments: Since the GI,WMO will not be a permitting agency, it is the sole responsibility of the member cities to regulate land use. The cities do take into consideration parks, other types of land use, park projects, redevelopment projects, and other opportunities when they are siting stormwater management facilities. The cities need to balance many competing wishes, needs, and limited funds when considering stormwater projects. Figures 3 and 4 in the GLWMO plan show existing and future impervious coverage, respectively and Figure 5 in the GLWMO plan shows the expected changes in imperviousness and redevelopment areas in the WMO. Section 5.3, A. General Policies, policy 3, encourages the member cities to take full advantage of redevelopment opportunities to improve stormwater management and water quality. The same policy states that the "cities are to require that all stormwater management upgrades conform to the policies in this plan (both water quality and water quantity policies)." 10. Retrofit of Stormwater Systems Reviewer Comments: Reviewer Location(s) in Comment Letter Comments BWSR Items circled "I O" The BWSR states that the GLWMO plan does not include an inventory and analysis of (stormwater) retrofit opportunities, nor does it include a defined strategy for pursuing federal financing of retrofit opportunities. The BWSR encourages the GLWMO to pursue federal money to finance retrofit projects "involving areas identified by state/fed/regional. water quality standards. For `resources of local concern,' provide retrofit inventory to cities."