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The time period between initiating annexation and sale of a home or opening of a business varies but can easily take from two to six years. Large-scale and timely annexations of undeveloped and underdeveloped areas should be encouraged to enhance the opportunity for compact urban growth, an efficient land use pattem, and a well-planned supporting arterial street system. The approach, as expressed in the following graphic, is to allow the cities to develop annexation programs which will ensure a six- to ten-year surplus of land. Such a range will allow .the maintenance of an adequate surplus of land at any point in time. The six- to ten-year surplus is suggested as a reasonable range which will not only allow for the conversion of urbanizable to urban land through annexation but will allow the cities the opportunity and flexibility to plan for and provide urban facilities and services on a large scale. The six-year minimum will allow the cities and other providers of urban services to develop coordinated capital improvement programs in accordance with the Metro Planadopted general plan. Such coordinated capital improvement programs can and should be closely related to implementation of annexation plans. Insert graphic The Metro Plan will be updated before undeveloped surplus urban lands are exhausted. The six- to ten-year low density residential land surplus should be based on the amount of development over the previous six to ten years. For other land use categories, annexation programs should be based on past trends, Metro Plan assumptions, and Metro Plan Goals, particularly those goals dealing with promotion of economic development and diversity. Improved monitoring techniques made possible by the geographic data systemRe~ional Land Information Database of Lane County (RLID) formerly referred to as the Geographic Information System (GIS) should allow such monitoring to occur. The monitoring information should be provided on a jurisdictional basis and on the metropolitan level. Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County shall cooperatively monitor and periodically report on development trends and land supply for all categories of residential, commercial, and industrial land. This system shall include consideration of proper zoning, coordinated capital improvements prograrraning, annexation, and other factors necessary to maintain availability of sufficient land to ensure that the supply is__responsive to demand in keeping with the F_~undamental P_principles of the Metro Plan. In summary, the cities should continually monitor the conversion ofurbanizable land to urban and pursue active annexation programs based on local policies and applicable provisions of this Metro Plan including, for example: 1. Orderly economic provision of public facilities and services (maintenance and development of capital improvement programs). 2. Availability of sufficient land to ensure a supply responsive to demand. II-E-2