EXHIBIT R Page 97 <br />Teal <br />Broaden, improve, and diversify the metropolitan eeenemy while maipAiiining, or enhaneing the <br />effi,ii ercment-. <br />Objectives <br />Improve the level, stability, and distribution of per-capita income for metropolitan <br />residents. <br />2. Reduce unemployment in the resident labor force, especially chronic long-term <br />unemployment. <br />Encourage local residents to develop skills and other educational attributes that would <br />enable them to obtain existing jobs. <br />4. Promote industrial and commercial development with local capital, entrepreneurial skills, <br />and experience of the resident labor force, as well as with new light manufacturing <br />companies from outside the metropolitan area. <br />5. Supply an adequate amount of land within the urban growth boundary to accommodate: <br />(a) the diversifying manufacturing sector (especially low polluting, energy-efficient <br />manufacturing uses): and (b) the expansion of the metropolitan area as a regional <br />distribution, trade, and service center. <br />6. Maintain strong central business districts to provide for office-based commercial, <br />governmental, and specialized or large-scale retail activities. <br />7. Ensure compatibility between industrial lands and adjacent areas. <br />Reserve enough remaining large parcels for special developments requiring large lots. <br />9. Increase the potential for convention- and tourist-related economic activities. <br />10. Provide the necessary public facilities and services to allow economic development. <br />11. Attempt to find ways to more effectively use inefficiently used resources such as land, <br />labor, and secondary waste products. <br />12. Provide for limited mixing of office, commercial, and industrial uses subject to clear, <br />objective criteria which: (a) do not materially reduce the suitability of industrial, office, <br />or commercial areas for their primary use; (b) assure compatibility; and (c) consider the <br />potential for increased traffic congestion. <br />Policies <br />III-B-4 95 <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 416 <br />