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Draft 9/29/14 E.Urban and Urbanizable Land This section addresses the need to allow for the orderly and economic extension of public services, the need to provide an orderly conversion of urbanizable to urban land, and the need to provide flexibility for market forces to operate in order to maintain affordable housing choices. For the definitions of urban and urbanizable lands, as well as rural lands and the urban growth boundary (UGB) as used in this section, refer to the Metro PlanGlossary. The undeveloped (urbanizable) area within the metropolitan UGB, separating urban and urbanizable land from rural land, washas beencarefully calculated to include an adequate supply to meet demand for a projected population of 286,000 through the end of the planning period (2015). When the metropolitan UGB was established for the 1995-2015 planning period, Lane County, Eugene and Springfield realized, Hhowever, that unless the community consciously decidesd to limit future expansions of the UGB, one of several ways to accommodate growth, that boundary willwould need to be expanded in future plan updates. The jurisdictions anticipatedso that before 2015,the metropolitan UGB would it will include more urbanizable area reflecting future metro-wide population and employment needs of populations beyond those in 2015. than that now depicted on the Metro PlanDiagram.Accordingly, pPeriodic updates of land use needs and revision of the metropolitan UGB to reflect extensions of the planning period were expected towill ensure that adequate surplus urbanizable land iswasalways available. With the transition mandated in 2007 by ORS 197.304, the shared metropolitan UGB will be replaced with two separate UGBs (the Eugene UGB and the Springfield UGB).This changed the land use work programs for the three jurisdictions. Evaluation of the sufficiency of the 2015 metropolitan UGB was replaced with an in-depth analysis of each city’s independent needs and the supplies of land that exist with respect to the separate areas of jurisdictional responsibility. That process began with the three jurisdictions’ adoption of city-specific population forecasts in Chapter I of the Metro Plan. In 2011, the City of Springfield, with co-adoption by Lane County, amended the Metro Plan to establish its own UGB consistent with ORS 197.304. 3 The three jurisdictions continue to agree that the key to addressing the needs stated at the beginning of this section is not so much the establishment of a UGB, but maintaining an adequate and reasonable supply of available undeveloped land at any point in time. The “adequate” and “reasonable” tests are the key to the related phasing and surplus land issues. In order to maintain an “adequate” supply of available surplus land to allow development to occur, annexation must take place in advance of demand in order to allow for the provision of public capital improvements, such as wastewater trunk lines, arterial streets, and water trunk lines. Most capital improvement programs are “middle-range” type plans geared three to six years into the future. The time between annexation and the point of finished construction usually involves several steps: 3 Springfield Ordinance No. 6268 and Lane County Ordinance No. PA1274. II-E-1