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175 <br />Critical Area Implementation Plan <br />Strategy: Protect and Restore Significant Ecological Resources <br />• Update Zoning Code to reflect Amended Plan <br />• Establish a plan to reduce erosion, protect canopy coverage, protect significant vegetative <br />areas, and encourage pollinator -friendly landscapes <br />• Ensure that information on the location of PRCVs is readily available to property owners to <br />understand how PRCV-relevant ordinance requirements, such as vegetation management <br />and land alteration permits, apply to their property for project planning and permitting. <br />• Actively communicate with other communities to protect views they have identified in your <br />community that are valuable, and vice versa <br />• Establish procedures for processing applications with potential impacts to PRCVs including <br />o Identifying the information that must be submitted and how it will be evaluated <br />o Determining appropriate mitigation procedures/methods for variances and CUPs <br />Strategy: Improve Water Quality <br />• Establish a plan to reduce the amount of sediment and phosphorus entering the river. <br />Strategy: Maintain and Improve Recreation Opportunities along and adjacent to the <br />Mississippi River <br />• Prioritize areas for acquisition to increase opportunities to access the river <br />• Coordinate jurisdictional planning efforts <br />Strategy: Improve Access to the Mississippi River <br />• Encourage creation, connection, and maintenance of open space, recreational facilities, <br />including public access to the river <br />• Create and maintain access facilities for public access <br />• Complete the Central Anoka County Regional Trail Connection <br />• Update the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) to reflect the amended Plan <br />• Update Surface Water Use Regulations <br />• Provide Guidance to Private Property Owners for Private Accesses <br />Strategy: Communicate the Benefits of Protection of Ecological Resources <br />• Create Informational Packets that provide the location of PCAs and information for property <br />owners to understand how PCA-relevant ordinance requirements, such as vegetation <br />management and land alternation permits apply to their property for project planning and <br />permitting <br />• Establish procedures and criteria for processing applications with potential impacts to <br />PCA's including: <br />o Identify what information must be submitted for projects within the MRCCA <br />boundary and the way in which it will be evaluated <br />o Determine appropriate mitigation procedures/methods for variances and CUPs <br />o Establish evaluation criteria for protecting PCAs when a development site contains <br />multiple types of PCAs and the total area of PCAs exceed the required set aside <br />percentages <br />city of RAMSEY <br />Comprehensive Plan 2040 <br />