EXHIBITS Page 59 <br />These lands designated outside the UGB include soils with potential forest productivity and <br />lands with existing forest cover. Designated forest lands are protected to preserve multiple forest <br />resource values, including commercial timber harvest, livestock grazing, scenic resources, <br />watershed and soil protection, fish and wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities. <br />Mixed Uses <br />This category represents areas where more than one use might be appropriate, usually as <br />determined by refinement plans on a local level. (For example, the Whiteaker Refinement Plan <br />includes several areas where a mix of compatible uses, based in part on existing development, <br />are designated.) In the absence of a refinement plan, the underlying plan designation shall <br />determine the predominant land use. <br />Natural Resource <br />This designation applies to privately and publicly owned lands where development and <br />conflicting uses shall be prohibited to protect natural resource values. These lands shall be <br />protected and managed for the primary benefit of values, such as fish and wildlife habitat, soil <br />conservation, watershed conservation, scenic resources, passive recreational opportunities, <br />vegetative cover, and open space. Where agricultural or forest practices have been identified as a <br />conflicting use incompatible with protection of the primary values of the identified natural <br />resource, those practices shall be prohibited. <br />Local governments shall apply appropriate implementation measures to protect these areas and to <br />direct development toward "buildable" lands adjacent to natural resource areas (planned unit <br />development application is a suitable technique for balancing conservation of natural resources <br />and need for housing). <br />Urban Growth Boundary <br />This e Urban growth boundaries separates urban and urbanizable lands from rural lands. For <br />the metropolitan UGB, the expected UGB population i-swas 286,000 by the year 2015. The <br />location of the metropolitan UGB result-5ed from environmental, social, and economic analysis in <br />terms of supply and demand, which is basic to this entire Metro Plan. Accordingly, LCDC Goal <br />14's establishment of UGB criteria was employed with the following results (for more detail, see <br />the Technical Supplement): <br />Factor 1. "Demonstrated need to accommodate long-range urban population growth <br />requirements consistent with LCDC goals;" <br />Population projections, employment projections, and housing projections were <br />prepared representing the best available technical information about long-range <br />urban growth in the metropolitan area. These projections were translated into <br />total land use needs. The Metro Plan Diagram was then constructed to <br />accommodate projected residential growth, assuming new residential construction <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 622 <br />