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Broaden, improve, and diversify the metropolitan economy while maintaining or enhanch~g the enviromnent. Objectives 1. Improve the level, stability, and distribution of per-capita income for metropolitan residents. 2. Reduce unemployment in the resident labor force, especially chronic long-term unemployment. 3. Encourage local residents to develop skills and other educational attributes that would enable them to obtain existing jobs. 4. Promote industrial and commercial development with local capital, entrepreneurial skills, and experience of the resident labor force, as well as with new light manufacturing companies fi:om outside the metropolitan area. 5. Supply an adequate amount of land within the urban growth boundary to accommodate: (a) the diversifying manufacturing sector (especially low polluting, energy-efficient manufacturing uses): and (b) the expansion of the metropolitan area as a regional distribution, trade, and service center. 6. Maintain strong central business districts to provide for office-based commercial, governmental, and specialized or large-scale retail activities. 7. Ensure compatibility between industrial lands and adjacent areas. 8. Reserve enough remaining large parcels for special developments requiring large lots. 9. Increase the potential for convention- and tourist-related economic activities. 10. Provide the necessary public facilities and services to allow economic development. 11. Attempt to find ways to more effectively use inefficiently used resources such as land, labor, and secondary waste products. 12. Provide for limited mixing of office, commercial, and industrial uses subject to clear, objective criteria which: (a) do not materially reduce the suitability of industrial, office, or commercial areas for their primary use; (b) assure compatibility; and (c) consider the potential for increased traffic congestion. Policies III-B-4