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ATTACHMENT A Executive Summary Over the next 50 years, the Southern Willamette Valley is expected to add more than 150,000 people. This Regional Growth Management Strategy (Strategy) provides a tool to help the region's communities grow in a way that will meet their needs for housing, jobs, schools, transportation, water, and other public facilities, while protecting natural resources and the environment. The Strategy, and the collaborative process used to develop it, recognize the regional nature of growth and the inter-connectedness of the communities within the region. In the summer of 1999, the Lane County Board of Commissioners and the city councils of COburg, Creswell, Cottage Grove, Eugene, Junction City, Lowell, Oakridge, Springfield, Veneta, and Westfir passed formal resolutions endorsing the concept of a RegionafGrowth Management Strate~y and directing Lane Council of Governments to develop the project and seek funding. The project became known as "Region 2050." From 1999 through 2006, the Regional Technical Advisory Committee or llRTAC" and the Regional Policy Advisory Board worked collaboratively to identify and agree on key issues and a vision and actions to address those issues. In June 2006, the Policy Advisory Board released this Strategy for review and comment by local communities and state agencies. The Strategy provides guidelines to help the participating jurisdictions manage growth. Full documentation for the actions proposed in this Strategy is contained in a companion document, "Regional Growth Management Strategy Technical Report" (Technical Report). Regional Growth Management Strategy This Strategy contains a Regional Growth Concept that directs growth into areas where it would have minimal environmental impacts and still meet the development objectives of the participating local communities. It also sets out a vision in the form of regional goals and objectives and proposes implementation actions in the seven "quality of life" categories discussed below. Goal: "Improve and sustain the region's quality of life by building regional consensus among publiC and private interests on goals, objectives, and actions in seven inter- dependent quality of life categories: 1. Land Use and Development Patterns 2. Housing 3. Economy 4. Transportation 5. Natural Resources, Open Space and the Environment 6. Community Facilities and Services 7. Education" 1 The Cities of Cottage Grove and Springfield decided to withdraw from the regional effort in 2006. This Strategy and the supporting documE1ntation assume the status quo for these jurisdictions (e.g., a future that is based on a continuation of historic trends), in the same manner as other non-participating Lane County cities (Florence and Dunes City) are addressed.