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Land use planning is best conducted at the subwatershed scale (i.e., 1 to 10 square miles), where it is recognized that stream quality is related to land use and impervious cover. One of the goals of land use planning is to shift development toward subwatersheds that can support a particular type of land use and/or density. The basic goal of the watershed plan is to apply land use planning techniques to redirect development, preserve sensitive areas, and maintain or reduce the impervious cover within a given watershed.