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• Open space takes many forms apart from parks, greenways and natural areas, including <br />farms, forests and working landscapes. <br />• Protection of water supplies and waterways is essential to the public's health and safety. <br />• The State of North Carolina must take a leadership role in providing a greenspace safety net <br />by providing planning, funding, oversight, and other support. <br />• The Million Acres Initiative is a key component of the state's efforts to protect open space. <br />• Preservation of farmland and open space requires mutually supportive partnership between <br />citizens and state and local governments. <br />• Dedicated funding sources are crucial to the success of all significant state programs that <br />protect open space. <br />• State policies should promote private land stewardship and respect private property rights. <br />• Open space and farmland preservation policies should be consistent with rural prosperity and <br />affordable housing goals. <br />• The cost of open space preservation should be shared broadly among the beneficiaries. <br />1. THE STATE ROLE <br />A. STATE POLICY <br />Objective 1A.1: Protect floodways, 100 -year floodplains and waterways. <br />■ Limit contributing state assistance to state or local government construction located in <br />floodways or 100 -year floodplains, except for transportation projects, trails, and water access <br />and wastewater collection and treatment facilities. <br />• Strictly limit impervious surface generated by state - funded transportation facilities in <br />floodways or floodplains. <br />■ Locate state - funded projects in a manner that minimizes destruction of existing wetlands. <br />■ Adopt stormwater management plans for state - funded projects consistent with state and <br />federal stormwater regulations. <br />■ Ban the selling of, leasing of, and granting of easements to state lands to private industrial <br />development projects that are located in floodways or floodplains. <br />■ Ban the use of state funds, state tax credits, and state bond proceeds to private or public <br />industrial development projects located in floodways or floodplains. <br />2 <br />