Energy: Portions of this expansion area would promote energy efficiencies through proximity to the <br />airport and transportation corridors, and relative proximity to various residential areas, with the <br />exception of the northern sites, which are distant from urban residential neighborhoods, but adjacent to <br />a rural residential neighborhood. The divided nature of the expansion option would limit energy <br />efficiency opportunities for transit. Overall energy consequences from this expansion option would be <br />neutral. <br />Economic: This expansion option would create additional industrial employment land, as all expansions <br />would. Providing public services to the two areas would be comparatively costly, creating negative <br />economic consequences. The overall economic consequences of this expansion option are neutral. <br />Social: This expansion option would impact more residents than the other two options due to the rural <br />residential neighborhood to the west of the northern sites. A mix of additional employment sites directly <br />adjacent to and near but not directly adjacent to residential neighborhoods provide a neutral to positive <br />social consequence. Overall social consequences of expanding into this area for industrial use would be <br />neutral. <br />Factor 4: Compatibility of the proposed urban uses with nearby agricultural and forest <br />activities occurring on farm and forest land outside the UGB <br />The configuration of this expansion option includes direct adjacency to land designated for agriculture <br />around the northern sites. While compatibility issues with this adjacency are likely to be minimal, there <br />is a possibility of undesirable impacts. <br />Focused Expansion Option 4. The fourth possible expansion option evaluated for the Goal 14 boundary <br />location factors focuses on the Green Hill Road and Awbrey Lane areas, which contain three 20-50 acre <br />sites, one 10-20 acre site, and two additional 10-20 acre sites that can be combined into a single 20-50 <br />acre site. The expansion option presented in the map "Focused Expansion Option: Green Hill Road and <br />Awbrey Lane" presents one possible configuration of sites using all sites west of Green Hill Road and one <br />site north of Awbrey Lane, with additional sites in the Clear Lake area as needed to meet the full needed <br />portfolio. Each of the Goal 14 boundary location factors are evaluated for this expansion option below <br />Factor 1: Efficient accommodation of identified land needs <br />This expansion option meets the entire portfolio of needed sites in four distinct expansion areas. <br />Expanding onto the site adjacent to Awbrey Lane would increase the urban/rural interface from 0.1 <br />miles to 0.9 miles along that boundary. Expanding onto the four areas on Green Hill Road would <br />increase the urban/rural interface from 0.6 miles to 2.3 miles along those boundaries and would require <br />the inclusion of one small tax lot totaling 5.3 acres (between Sites P4.6c and P4.6d) that is otherwise not <br />under consideration to create a contiguous urban growth boundary. <br />The area north of Clear Lake Road that supplements this area would complete the needed portfolio of <br />sites. Expanding into this area would ultimately reduce the urban/rural interface from 6.0 miles along <br />this stretch to 3.4 miles due to additional lands incorporated, noted below. This area north of Clear Lake <br />Road would require the inclusion of nine small tax lots and part of one tax lot totaling 58.8 acres and <br />48.9 acres of a partial tax lot that are otherwise not under consideration. Like Option 2, this option <br />would also require the inclusion of a significant number of additional acres due to a larger rural island <br />that would otherwise be created. Because the school expansion connects to Clear Lake Road, and City <br />policy requires that the urban growth boundary include bordering rights-of-way, this expansion option <br />Appendix B to Findings May 2017 Page 139 <br />