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Resolution No. /D�9 • � Page 33 . b. ) . Local Government Responsibility: "In the management - of the land areas of the district, the primary control . and determination of land use remains with the local municipalities ; however, as development pressures increase, it becomes essential that the critical land and water areas to be retained be identified in the municipal land development guid�s , drainage plans, and in the municipal flood plain and shoreland ordin�nces . Once such ar�as are identified, they should be further protected by appropriate zoning and by assessment and taxing policies of the municipalities ." c. ) Flood Pla in Regulation: "The managers decla re that because of private and public expenditures in the improvement and development of the land and water areas subject to inundation by flood waters , it is in the best interests of the public health, safety and welfare to plan and regulate the development 'of the land area abutting the lakes, permanent watercourses and marshes of the district in accordance with sound scientific principles and data . • In addition to the standards and criteria of local ordinances , improvements will not be allowed in the shore and/or flood plain areas that will adversely affect the ability of the marshes , swamps or adjacent shorelines to act as a filter to the permanent surface waters of the district, and thereby . prevent or reduce pollutional discharges directly to such waters or adversely affect the efficiency or unduly_ restrict the water-carrying capacity of the channel . " d. ) Dred'ging in or. Related to Water Areas : "The managers desire to .minimize detrimental environmental change to - public waters, to maintain natural shoreline characteristics and to maintain and improve general recreational and wildlife- fishery characteristics of lakes and streams. '-t. A permit from the watershed distri�ct will �e required prior to any dredging in the beds , banks or shores of any permanent ' watercourses , lakes or marshes of the district. . _.Dredging will not be allowed above the ordinary or natural ordinary highwater mark onto the abutting shoreland or into � upland areas adjacent to public waters . In the case of Lake Minnetonka , no dredging will be allowed above Elevation 929 .4 � M.S .L. (1929) datum.