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#1, #2, #3 and #5) will expand housing opportunities for the region's citizens. These policies support and reinforce adopted Metro Plan fundamental principals, goals and poli- cies to achieve compact urban growth, increase residential densities, and increase mixed- use developments in designated areas. The proposed Metro Plan diagram designation of ND, Nodal Development, will facilitate implementation of these housing opportunities. Adoption of Finance Policy #5 requires that transportation facilities and improvements to support nodal development will be included among short-term project priorities. There- fore, the revisions to TransPlan and the Metro Plan amendments comply with Goal 10. Goalll-Public Facilities and Services: To plan and develop a timely, orderly and ef- ficient arrangement of public facilities and services to serve as a framework for urban and rural development. The proposals to adopt revisions to TransPlan and amend the Metro Plan text concern only the provision of transportation facilities. Transportation System Improvements Policies guide planning and implementation for all transportation system modes and Fi- nance Policies # 1 through #5 guide the development and allocation of funding for trans- portation services, facilities and projects. As required by the Goal 11 administration rule' (OAR 660, Division 11), a written description of the general location or service area of the projects in the 20-year Capital Investment Actions project lists are adopted as part of the MetroPlan. Therefore, the revisions to TransPlan and the Metro Plan amendments comply with Goal 11. Goall2- Transportation: To provide and encourage a safe, convenient and economic transportation system. The proposals to adopt revisions to TransPlan and amend the Metro Plan text were devel- oped to meet the goals of an integrated transportation and land use system that enhances the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area's quality of life and economic opportunity (Goals 1 and 2). The revisions to TransPlan seek to achieve these goals through three sets of strategies: land "use measures, transportation demand management, and transporta- tion system improvements. Together, these strategies form a balanced and integrated framework for meeting the Transportation Planning Rule purpose to "promote the devel- opment of safe, convenient and economic transportation systems that are designed to re- duce reliance on the automobile so that the air pollution, traffic and other livability prob- lems faced by urban areas in other parts of the county might be avoided." Land Use Poli- cies encourage transportation-efficient development'patterns, such as nodal development and transit-supportive land use patterns which reduce trip lengths and auto dependency and support transit, bicycling, and walking. Transportation Demand Management Poli- cies focus on reducing demand on the transportation system by actions that eliminate the need for vehicle trips and increase the use of transit, carpooling and vanpooling, bicy- cling, and walking. Transportation System Improvements Policies address the need for improved operations and maintenance of the existing system and investments in system infrastructure and services. These policies are supported by Finance Policies which pro- Exhibit C Findings in Support of the Adoption of TransPlan 12