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172 <br />Policy 2: The City will seek opportunities to restore vegetation to protect and enhance PRCVs <br />identified in this plan. <br />Policy 3: The City will seek opportunities to restore vegetation in restoration priority areas <br />identified in this plan through the CUP, variance, vegetation permit and subdivision/PUD processes. <br />Policy 4: The City will work to sustain and enhance ecological functions (habitat value) during <br />vegetation restorations. <br />Policy 5: The City will require that proposed development sites be evaluated for erosion prevention <br />and bank and slope stabilization issues and require restoration as part of the development process. <br />Surface Water Uses <br />Policy 1: The City will continue to support Anoka County's operation of a Boat Launch along <br />Traprock Street. <br />Policy 2: The City recognizes the Mississippi River as a "working river" that is important to the <br />economy of the Twin Cities metropolitan area and the Midwest. JO <br />Policy 3: The City does not currently regulate surface water use under Minn. Statute, Chapter 86B <br />and does not intend to assume that responsibility. �"' ('+,, <br />Policy 4: Where applicable, the City will seek to balance commercial and recreational surface water <br />• c\O <br />uses. <br />Water Oriented Uses <br />Policy 1: The City will work to minimize potential conflicts of water -oriented uses with other land <br />uses. <br />Policy 2: The City acknowledges the existing water oriented uses described in this MRCCA plan and <br />will protect those uses within the MRCCA boundary. <br />Open Space & Recrea��aciljxP����v <br />S,11117j <br />Ramsey will continue to support planning and implementation for Mississippi West. Ramsey will <br />continue to own and maintain Riverdale Park. Ramsey will continue to plan for a new municipal <br />park along the Mississippi River between the Alpaca Estates and Bowers neighborhoods. <br />Trans' ortation & Public tilities <br />Ramsey will continue to support future planning for the future Mississippi River Crossing to the <br />City of Dayton in Hennepin County. <br />Ramsey will continue to support Connexus Energy's electric transmission line across the <br />Mississippi River to the City of Dayton. <br />Natural Resources Planning <br />Ramsey undertook two (2) comprehensive inventories in the mid-2000s; a Natural Resources <br />Inventory (NRI) and a Wetland Inventory. Both of these data sets are referenced any time a new <br />development is proposed. These data sets help inform Ramsey if there are significant and/or high <br />value natural resources within a development site that may warrant greater protections. While <br />both provide valuable insight, Ramsey acknowledges that both require periodic updates to ensure <br />that the data is accurate and relevant. There has been no specific timeframe identified for updates <br />Vie_: h4 nsryi:la u 204o <br />