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■ Provide incentives for local governments that include floodplain protection in Park and Open <br />Space plans. <br />• Provide incentives for local governments that exceed required buffers on all waterways, <br />including greenways and wildlife corridors, within their jurisdiction. <br />• Provide state matching funds to compile regional and statewide inventories and mapping of <br />high priority environmentally sensitive areas. <br />■ Encourage local governments to incorporate information about locations of threatened <br />species, habitats, or natural areas into local land -use and open space protection plans. <br />■ Increase funds available to Natural Heritage Trust Fund. <br />Objective 3E.2: Refine state policies to increase protection of natural areas. <br />■ Improve coordination of economic development with open space protection. <br />■ Prevent state- funded projects, including those funded by tax- credits and other assistance, <br />from creating adverse impacts on protected open space as well as wetlands, floodplains, and <br />other sensitive natural areas. <br />Objective 3E.3: Keep beaches public and unspoiled. <br />• Continue to aggressively defend the public right to the sandy oceanfront beach by <br />maintaining the state's ban on hardened structures and the public right to use the beach. <br />• Identify which barrier islands, or parts of barrier islands., are appropriate candidates for <br />renounshment and which are not, based upon a beach plan that is scientifically and <br />technically defensible, and includes realistic cost estimates. <br />■ Develop density restrictions as well as specific public access requirements for beach <br />communities that receive public funding for beach renourishment. <br />■ Develop and implement exit strategies for those beach communities where beach <br />renourishment is not appropriate or feasible. <br />■ Existing trust funds dedicated for natural heritage, recreation, and water quality protection <br />should not be used or allocated to fund beach renourishment projects. <br />4. TOOLS <br />A. EXPAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FLEXIBILITY <br />Objective 4A.1: Give local governments greater access to land -use tools. <br />15 <br />