What is an RPA?
Resource Protection Areas (RPAs) are sensitive environmental corridors that should be preserved in a natural condition. The City adopted an RPA map in 1992 based on criteria provided in the Management Regulations. New State mandates require that all City streams with perennial flow must be protected by a 100-foot Resource Protection Area buffer. Therefore, the RPA map was amended in 2004 to comply with the new State requirements. The amended RPA map and new intermittent stream map depict the results of a City-wide stream classification study and the corresponding RPAs.
