EXHIBITS Page 14 <br />Chapter I <br />Introduction <br />Background <br />The 2004 Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan (Metro Plan) is the third update <br />of the 1990 Plan. The 1990 Plan, adopted in 1972, provided that a major update of the <br />comprehensive plan should be initiated every five years. This reflects the fact that <br />comprehensive plans must be adaptable to the changing needs and circumstances of the <br />community if they are to retain their validity and usefulness. <br />Therefore, this Metro Plan is not an entirely new product, but rather has evolved from and <br />reflects needed changes to the original 1990 Plan. <br />The Metro Plan was acknowledged by the Land Conservation and Development Commission <br />(LCDC) in 1982 for the area inside the urban growth boundary (UGB). The remaining area was <br />acknowledged in September 1985. The Metro Plan was updated in 1987 and in 2004 through <br />periodic review. <br />As explained in the Preface and below, the Metro Plan will continue to evolve. <br />Purpose <br />The Metro Plan was created to isserve as the sole official long-range comprehensive plan (public <br />policy document) of metropolitan Lane County and the cities of Eugene and Springfield. As <br />Eugene and Springfield carry out their obligations under ORS 197.304, including the <br />establishment of separate UGBs and land supplies for their individual populations, more <br />comprehensive planning is taking_place on a city-specific basis, through city-specific plans <br />adopted by each jurisdiction. <br />The Metro Plan will <br />continue to include some of the regional land use planning that is collaboratively addressed by <br />Lane County, Eugene and Springfield. It will also refer its readers to jointly adopted functional <br />land use plans and Eugene and Springfield city-specific comprehensive land use planning <br />documents. <br />The Metro Plan was intended to designate a sufficient amount of urbanizable land to <br />accommodate the need for further urban expansion within the shared metropolitan UGB, taking <br />into account the growth policy of the area to accommodate a population of 286,000 within the <br />metropolitan UGB by the year 2015.3 The Metro Plan also was intended to identify the major <br />public facilities required to meet the land use needs designated within -~4ethat metropolitanUGB. <br />3 The population projection range for the Residential Land Use and Housing Element in Chapter III-A is 291,700 to <br />311,100. The expected population for the year 2015 is 301,400. This projection is for the Metropolitan Study <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 577 <br />