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Draft 9/29/14 These lands designated outside the UGB include soils with potential forest productivity and lands with existing forest cover. Designated forest lands are protected to preserve multiple forest resource values, including commercial timber harvest, livestock grazing, scenic resources, watershed and soil protection, fish and wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities. Mixed Uses This category represents areas where more than one use might be appropriate, usually as determined by refinement plans on a local level. (For example, the Whiteaker Refinement Plan includes several areas where a mix of compatible uses, based in part on existing development, are designated.) In the absence of a refinement plan, the underlying plan designation shall determine the predominant land use. Natural Resource This designation applies to privately and publicly owned lands where development and conflicting uses shall be prohibited to protect natural resource values. These lands shall be protected and managed for the primary benefit of values, such as fish and wildlife habitat, soil conservation, watershed conservation, scenic resources, passive recreational opportunities, vegetative cover, and open space. Where agricultural or forest practices have been identified as a conflicting use incompatible with protection of the primary values of the identified natural resource, those practices shall be prohibited. Local governments shall apply appropriate implementation measures to protect these areas and to direct development toward “buildable” lands adjacent to natural resource areas (planned unit development application is a suitable technique for balancing conservation of natural resources and need for housing). Urban Growth Boundary This line Urban growth boundaries separates urban and urbanizable lands from rural lands. For the metropolitan UGB, Tthe expected UGB population iswas 286,000 by the year 2015. The location of the metropolitan UGB resultsed from environmental, social, and economic analysis in terms of supply and demand, which is basic to this entire Metro Plan. Accordingly, LCDC Goal 14’s establishment of UGB criteria was employed with the following results (for more detail, see the Technical Supplement): Factor 1.“Demonstrated need to accommodate long-range urban population growth requirements consistent with LCDC goals;” Population projections, employment projections, and housing projections were prepared representing the best available technical information about long-range urban growth in the metropolitan area. These projections were translated into total land use needs. The Metro Plan Diagram was then constructed to accommodate projected residential growth, assuming new residential construction II-G-13