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Draft 9/29/14 Residential This category is expressed in gross acre density ranges. Using gross acres, approximately 32 percent of the area is available for auxiliary uses, such as streets, elementary and junior high schools, neighborhood parks, other public facilities, neighborhood commercial services, and churches not actually shown on the Metro PlanDiagram. Such auxiliary uses shall be allowed within residential designations if compatible with refinement plans, zoning ordinances, and other local controls for allowed uses in residential neighborhoods. The division into low, medium, and high densities is consistent with that depicted on the Metro Plan Diagram. In other words: Low density residential—Through 10 units per gross acre Medium density residential—Over 10 through 20 units per gross acre High density residential—Over 20 units per gross acre These ranges do not prescribe particular structure types, such as single-family detached, duplex, mobile home, or multiple-family. That distinction, if necessary, is left to local plans and zoning ordinances. While all medium and high density allocations shown on the Metro Plan Diagram may not be needed during the planning period, their protection for these uses is important because available sites meeting pertinent location standards are limited. As of January 1, 1977, density of all existing residential development within the 1990 Plan projected urban service area was about 3.64 dwelling units per gross acre. For newdwelling units constructed during 1986 to 1994, the net density was 7.05 dwelling units per acre in the UGB based on the RLID data. The estimated overall residential net density for all residential development has climbed from 5.69 dwelling units per are in 1986 to 5.81 dwelling units per acre in 1994. This Metro Plan, including the Metro PlanDiagram, calls for an overall average of about six dwelling units per gross acre for new construction through 2015, the planning period. By realizing this goal, the community will benefit from more efficient energy use; preservation of the maximum amount of productive agricultural land; use of vacant leftover parcels where utilities are already in place; and more efficient, less costly provision of utilities and services to new areas. This higher overall average density can only be achieved if the cities explore, and when feasible, in light of housing costs and needs, adopt new procedures and standards including those needed to implement the policies in the Residential Land Use and Housing Element. The UGBswill be modified, as necessary, to ensure an on-going, adequate, available land supply to meet needs. See also Urban and Urbanizable Land in this section. II-G-4