Include requirements in comprehensive and/or other plans for intergovernmental coordination addressing regional land use and watershed / wellhead impacts, infrastructure, transportation, economic development and city/regional services.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Include plan requirements (in a comp plan or another planning document) on coordinated action with surrounding or overlapping jurisdictions for several of these issues: land use, watershed/groundwater impacts, transportation, sewer and water, economic development, housing and foreclosures, police, fire, health; adopt a wellhead / source water protection plan. |
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Convene discussions or enter into agreements (joint service or others) with surrounding communities on at least 3 of these issues; adopt a comprehensive plan goal to monitor and/or remediate all existing or potential sources of contamination within the city's drinking water supply management area/ source water protection area DWSMA/SWPA. |
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Jointly invest in infrastructure to avoid duplication or improve performance; as part of inter-city discussions mentor another GreenStep city. |
Resources
- The Resilient Communities Project at the University of Minnesota and the Sustainable Communities Partnership at the University of St. Thomas can provide graduate and undergraduate student assistance for applied research projects, program planning and development, program evaluation, and other short-term planning projects. Other ongoing sources of student assistance include the Center for Small Towns.
- The MN Dept. of Health has guidance on wellhead and source water protection plans (that can be built into comprehensive plans and integrated with county water plans) and actions that prevent groundwater/drinking water pollution and a sustainable water use rate. A basic comp plan goal would be to monitor and/or remediate all leaking underground storage tanks (USTs) within drinking water supply management areas (DWSMAs) and within source water protection areas (SWPAs).
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