EXHIBITS Page 162 <br />Chapter V <br />Glossary <br />The purpose of the Glossary is to define commonly used terms in the Metro Plan. <br />Affordable housing: Housing priced so that a household at or below median income pays <br />no more than 30 percent of its total gross income on housing and utilities. (The U.S. <br />Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) figure for 1997 annual median <br />income for a family of three in Lane County is $33,900; 30 percent = $847/month.) <br />2. Annexation: An extension of the boundaries of a city or special district. Annexations are <br />governed by Oregon Revised Statutes. hi €tige , <br />Commission. <br />Assumption: A position, projection, or conclusion considered to be reasonable. <br />Assumptions differ from findings in that they are not known facts. <br />4. Best Management Practices (BMPs): Management practices or techniques used to guide <br />design and construction of new improvements to minimize or prevent adverse <br />environmental impacts. Often organized as a list from which those practices most suited <br />to a specific site can be chosen to halt or offset anticipated problems. <br />Buildable residential lands: Land in urban and urbanizable areas that is suitable, <br />available, and necessary for residential uses, as more particularly defined in OAR 660, <br />Division 8 and in adopted buildable lands inventories. Btiil able afi melt des b <br />land within easement of 230 KNI pewef lities, land Within 75 feet of Class A stfeams EW <br />mitigatien sites in Etigene, and wetlands lafgef than 0.25 aefes in spfifigfield. Ptibliely <br />platining pefied-. <br />Class F Streams (currently Class I Streams in Lane Code): "Streams that have fish use, <br />including fish use streams that have domestic water use," as defined in OAR 629 to 635. <br />Compact Urban Growth: The filling in of vacant and underutilitzed lands in the UGB, as <br />well as redevelopment inside the UGB. <br />Densi : The average number of families, persons, or housing units per unit of land. <br />Density is usually expressed as dwelling units per acre. <br />Laurel Ridge Record (Z 15-5) Page 725 <br />