EXHIBITS Page 22 <br />4. In addition to population growth, increasing labor force participation rates will increase <br />the resident labor force, thereby increasing the demand for employment opportunities. <br />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 286,000, provided periodic updates of the Metro <br />Plan are conducted and the area designated for urbanization on the Metro Plan Diagram <br />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 />8. Additional urban development will take place within incorporated cities. <br />General Findings <br />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 />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 />The development and implementation of planning policies have social and economic <br />impacts. <br />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 />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 585 <br />