Complete report - Partners for Clean Streams

ISSUE 3: WETLANDS AND OPEN SPACE PRESERVATION
(continued)
Actions Suggested
in the Maumee RAP
Recommendations
Report
The planning process must include
a review of existing floodplain and
zoning legislation, with maps being
made available to the general
public to monitor the disposition of
these areas. (2.3.4.2)
The comprehensive plan should be
reviewed every five years, but the
initial process should be open to a
wide array of interested parties.
(2.3.4.2)
To be established at the state level,
is the creation of a Coastal
Wetlands Preservation Program
and it should be supported with a
special revenue Wetlands
Preservation Fund in the State
budget. (2.3.4.2)
Action
$
Activity
US ACOE and New
Ohio Isolated
Wetlands Regulations
Maumee River
Watershed Wetlands
Protection &
Enhancement
Planning Project
Maumee
RAP
Involvement
Date
Beneficial
Use
Affected
See
Page
None 2001 141
Collaborator
2000-
2002
" - - - - -
#
ODNR Coastal
Management Program
Lake Erie Protection
and Restoration Plan
Clean Ohio Fund
None
1997-
Present
14
141
142
None 2000
3, 14
171
Identified coastal wetlands should
be valued as prime agricultural land
for tax purposes. (2.3.4.2)
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Educational programs need to be
initiated by the RAP Coordinating
Committee and by all governmental
entities on the need for these
programs (2.3.4.2)
Maumee River
Watershed Wetlands
Protection &
Enhancement
$
Planning Project
Floodplain
Management
Workshop
None
Collaborator
2001 -
2005
2000-
2002
Lead 1996
ACTIVITIES NOT IN THE 1991 RAP RECOMMENDATIONS REPORT
%
Ottawa
$
$
Clean
SWCD Private
Lands Wetlands
Restoration
OSU Drainage
Channel Restoration
None
None
1992 -
1994
1999-
Present
Ohio Fund None
2001 -
2005
3, 14
137
141
142
14 143
14 143
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8,
11, 14
137
Activities and Accomplishments
in the Maumee Area of Concern
15
Issue 3: Wetlands and
Open Space Preservation