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Draft 9/29/14 <br />10.The provision of adequate public facilities and services is necessary for economic <br />development. <br />11. There are presently inefficiently used resources in the metropolitan area, including land, <br />labor, and secondary waste products. <br />12. Major employment areas include the Eugene and Springfield central business districts, <br />the University of Oregon area, Sacred Heart Hospital, the west Eugene industrial area, the <br />north (Gateway) and south Springfield industrial areas, the Highway 99N industrial area, <br />Country Club Road, Chad Drive, and the Mohawk-Northgate area. <br />13. The metropolitan economy is made up of a number of interrelated and important <br />elements, one of which is construction and construction-related activities. Construction, <br />for example, is essential for all sectors of the economy, as well as for the provision of an <br />adequate supply of affordable housing. <br />14. The mixture of commercial and office uses with industrial uses can reduce or enhance the <br />utility of industrial areas for industrial purposes, depending upon circumstances. <br />Uncontrolled mixing creates problems of compatibility and traffic congestion, and may <br />limit the area available for industrial development. Limited mixing, subject to clear and <br />objective criteria designed to minimize or eliminate incompatibility, traffic problems, and <br />which preserve the area for its primary purpose, can make an industrial area more <br />pleasant, convenient, economical, and attractive as a place to work or locate. <br />15. Campus industrial firms prefer city services. <br />16.Campus industrial firms have varied site location requirements, prefer alternative sites to <br />choose from, and usually benefit from location of other special light industrial firms <br />within the community and within the same industrial development. <br />Objectives <br />1.Improve the level, stability, and distribution of per-capita income for metropolitan <br />residents. <br />2.Reduce unemployment in the resident labor force, especially chronic long-term <br />unemployment. <br />3.Encourage local residents to develop skills and other educational attributes that would <br />enable them to obtain existing jobs. <br />4.Promote industrial and commercial development with local capital, entrepreneurial skills, <br />and experience of the resident labor force, as well as with new light manufacturing <br />companies from outside the metropolitan area. <br />3 <br />III-B- <br />