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Draft 9/29/14 Chapter V Glossary The purpose of the Glossary is to define commonly used terms in the Metro Plan. 1.Affordable housing: Housing priced so that a household at or below median income pays no more than 30 percent of its total gross income on housing and utilities. (The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) figure for 1997 annual median income for a family of three in Lane County is $33,900; 30 percent = $847/month.) 2.Annexation: An extension of the boundaries of a city or special district. Annexations are governed by Oregon Revised Statutes. In the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area, annexations currently require approval by the Lane County Local Government Boundary Commission. 3.Assumption: A position, projection, or conclusion considered to be reasonable. Assumptions differ from findings in that they are not known facts. 4.Best Management Practices (BMPs): Management practices or techniques used to guide design and construction of new improvements to minimize or prevent adverse environmental impacts. Often organized as a list from which those practices most suited to a specific site can be chosen to halt or offset anticipated problems. 5.Buildable residential lands: Land in urban and urbanizable areas that is suitable, available, and necessary for residential uses, as more particularly defined in OAR 660, Division 8 and in adopted buildable lands inventories. Buildable land includes both vacant land and developed land likely to be redeveloped. Lands defined as unbuildable within the metropolitan urban growth boundary (UGB) are those within the floodway, land within easement of 230 KV power lines, land within 75 feet of Class A streams or ponds, land within 50 feet of Class B streams or ponds, protected wetlands and wetland mitigation sites in Eugene, and wetlands larger than 0.25 acres in Springfield. Publicly owned land is generally not considered available for residential use. Buildable land includes property not currently sewered but scheduled to be sewered within the 20-year planning period. 6.Class F Streams (currently Class I Streams in Lane Code): “Streams that have fish use, including fish use streams that have domestic water use,” as defined in OAR 629 to 635. 7.Compact Urban Growth: The filling in of vacant and underutilitzed lands in the UGB, as well as redevelopment inside the UGB. 8.Density: The average number of families, persons, or housing units per unit of land. Density is usually expressed as dwelling units per acre. V-1