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figure for the UGB is because the UGB, not the Metropolitan Study Area, is the area of the Metro Plan's planning jurisdiction. The current figure and range for the Metropolitan Study Area is merely a technical number used in the analysis. It has no relationship to the population size Eugene and Springfield are required to serve in the year 2015. How the UGB 2015 population was derive& The Eugene-Springfield urban growth boundary (UGB) population projections were derived starting with the 2015 expected housing demand for the Metro Study Area. From the 2015 expected housing demand for the Metro Study Area, the existing and expected housing units inside the Metro Study Area and outside the Eugene-Springfield UGB were subtracted to arrive at the 2015 expected housing demand for the UGB. Vacant housing units (assumed at 3.5%) were subtracted from 2015 expected housing demand for the UGB to arrive at total 2015 households in the UGB. The 2015 projected average household size of 2.27 was then applied to total expected households which resulted in total 2015 expected population in households. Then the group quarters population (assumed at 3% of the total population) was added to the total 2015 expected population in households to arrive at the 2015 total expected UGB population. Relationship of Population Projection to Employment: In developing the 2015 Lane County and Metropolitan Study Area population projections, the civilian labor force was projected for use in the migration component of the model. The employment projection was forecast independently; although population played a role in forecasting employment, particularly retail employment. Once both the employment and population projections were generated, the population to employment ratio was developed and reviewed for reasonableness. Recommendation: Staff recommends retaining the edits to the population figure in Exhibit A. The UGB population for the year 2015 is necessary in order to ensure coordination with public facility planning and coordinated population projections with other jurisdictions in Lane County. 2. What were the specific reasons for proposing changes to the policies? Text changes throughout Exhibit A, including some of the policies, were changed for the following general reasons: · "Projected service area" is changed to UGB throughout the document because the concept of a projected service area was replaced with the UGB when the Metro Plan was adopted in 1982 but the old language was not removed at that time; · Text edits to improve grammar that do not alter the meaning, e.g. "that" to "which" and "sanitary sewer" to "wastewater," etc; Metro Plan Periodic Review Text and Diagram Amendments Staff Notes Page 7 of 28 City Council Agenda pa§e 309