EXHIBIT R Page 28 <br />5. The metropolitan area will experience continuing growth of the local economy. <br />6. Based on projections of recent population and economic trends, there will be sufficient <br />land within the urban growth boundary, depicted on the Metro Plan Diagram in Chapter <br />II, to ensure reasonable choices in the market place for urban needs to serve a <br />metropolitan UGB area population of 286 OD-U-2-93-,700, provided periodic updates of the <br />Metro Plan are conducted and the area designated for urbanization on the Metro Plan <br />Diagram is updated to assure that the supply remains responsive to demand. <br />7. Public policies controlling the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area's growth pattern <br />will continue to be effective. For example, compact urban growth will continue to <br />enhance the opportunity to preserve important natural assets, such as rural open space and <br />agricultural land. <br />Additional urban development will take place within incorporated cities. <br />General Findings <br />4-. -Trlr'iiraver-age -aiuiciu1 grawv iii-ratf'-tl-l-the -mr-epohteft- area "c-ceased-ftem -.34Tereent- -a <br />the4-960s-to-2G pereent-between-f970-and-1-97-5 -T-his--is-the-lo-west4t-ha-s-been-since <br />4-930: <br />2:1. Orderly metropolitan growth cannot be accomplished without coordination of public <br />investments. Such coordination can be enhanced through use of the Public Facilities and <br />Services Plan and scheduling of priorities. <br />3.2._.::_._.-_ When urban growth is allowed to occur without consideration for the physical <br />characteristics of the land, it creates problems that are then difficult to solve. <br />43_____ _The development and implementation of planning policies have social and economic <br />impacts. <br />-5.4. -Financial and taxing inequities are generated when urban development is allowed to <br />occur in unincorporated areas on the periphery of Springfield and Eugene because many <br />residents of such developments are at least partially dependent on streets, parks, and other <br />non-direct fee facilities and services provided by those cities and financed from their <br />revenues. <br />26 1-g <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 347 <br />