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5. The metropolitan area will experience continuing growth of the local economy. 6. Based on projections of recent population and economic trends, there will be sufficient land within the urban growth boundary, depicted on the Metro Plan Diagram in Chapter II, to ensure reasonable choices in the market place for urban needs to serve a I metropolitan UGB area population of 286,0002-9-3,700, provided periodic updates of the Metro Plan are conducted and the area designated for urbanization on the Metro Plan Diagram is updated to assure that the supply remains responsive to demand. 7. Public policies controlling the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area's growth pattern will continue to be effective. For example, compact urban growth will continue to enhance the opportunity to preserve important natural assets, such as rural open space and agricultural land. 8. Additional urban development will take place within incorporated cities. General Findings &. The average annual growth rate ill the mctropol/tan area decreased from 3. I percent in t4~e--t-9i~s~4o-~percent between 1970 m~d 1975. This is the4owest it has beemsi~ee ~.1. Orderly metropolitan growth cannot be accomplished without coordination of public investments. Such coordination can be enhanced through use of the Public Facilities and Services Plan and scheduling of priorities. ~.2. When urban growth is allowed to occur without consideration for the physical characteristics of the land, it creates problems that are then difficult to solve. 43 The development and implementation of planning policies have social and economic impacts. -5~. Financial and taxing inequities are generated when urban development is allowed to occur in unincorporated areas on the periphery of Springfield and Eugene because many residents of such developments are at least partially dependent on streets, parks, and other non-direct fee facilities and services provided by those cities and financed from their revenues. I-8