G.16 Manage or enhance waterways and open stormwater systems to reduce water quality <br />impacts from runoff and to improve stormwater conveyance. <br />G.17 Include measures in local land development regulations that minimize the amount of <br />impervious surface in new development in a manner that reduces stormwater pollution, <br />reduces the negative affects from increases in runoff, and is compatible with Metro Plan <br />policies. <br />G.18 The cities and Lane County shall adopt a strategy for the unincorporated area of the UGB <br />to: reduce the negative effects of filling in floodplains and prevent the filling of natural <br />drainage channels except as necessary to ensure public operations and maintenance of <br />these channels in a manner that preserves and/or enhances floodwater conveyance <br />capacity and biological function. <br />G.19 Maintain flood storage capacity within the floodplain, to the maximum extent practical, <br />through measures that may include reducing impervious surface in the floodplain and <br />adjacent areas. <br />Services to Development Within the Urban Growth Boundary: Electrici <br />Finding <br />2422. According to local municipal utilities, efficient electrical service is often accomplished <br />through mutual back-up agreements and inter-connected systems are more efficient than <br />isolated systems. <br />Policies <br />G.20 The electric service providers will agree which provider will serve areas about to be <br />annexed and inform the cities who the service provider will be and how the transition of <br />services, if any, will occur. <br />Services to Development Within the Urban Growth Boundar : Schools <br />Finding <br />2523. ORS 195.110 requires cities and counties to include, as an element of their <br />comprehensive plan, a school facility plan for high growth districts prepared by the <br />district in cooperation with the city or county; and for the city or county to initiate the <br />planning activity. The law defines high growth districts as those that have an enrollment <br />of over 5,000 students and an increase in enrollment of six percent or more during the <br />three most recent school years. At present, there are no high growth school districts in the <br />UGB. <br />2624. ORS 197.296(4)(a) states that when the UGB is amended to provide needed housing, "As <br />part of this process, the amendment shall include sufficient land reasonably necessary to <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) III-G-9 Page 236 <br />