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Actions: Endorse the Strategy by motion, affirming the jurisdiction's or agency's agreement to: use the regional goals and objectives and Regional Growth Concept, including the coordinated population allocation, as a tool to guide growth and development; take those optional implementation actions that are appropriate to meet local needs and objectives; and to continue to meet and work cooperatively with the other regional partners to monItor Strategy Implementation and to reviSIt the Strategy in the future. The Strategy recommends an on-going monitoring program and annual "State of the Region" report. Land Use and Development Patterns Goal: "Promote land use and development patterns that sustain and improve quality of life in the Southern Willamette Valley, maintain each community's identity, facilitate economic development, and conserve and manage natural resources." Actions: The "Regional Growth Concepf' and optional actions proposed to implement this -goal (e.g., proposed Coordinated Population AJlocations2 for each UGB and the rural area, Urban Reserves, density standards, rural development actions) allocate population and employment in the region consistent with the visions of the individual communities and the capacity of the land to accommodate the desired level, type, and pace of growth.3- The Regional Growth Concept directs growth into areas where it will have the least envi- ronmental impacts while continuing to meet development needs and promote economic development. Endorsement of the Strategy recognizes that the land use element will not be effective in meeting the regional goals if the infrastructure (water, wastewater, and transportation) is not adequate to serve growth. Housing Goal: "Seek to ensure that each community has an adequate variety of housing types to meet the needs of residents." Actions: Key optional actions include: to use the data from the Regional Housing Needs Analysis as the basis for changing the designation of residential land within the UGB;4 and to use land banking, particularly within newly designated urban reserves, to acquire and sell to developers land for affordable housing. The regional housing needs analysis 2 Coordinated population allocations are required by state law, with or without a strategy. The Regional Growth Management Strategy is the method these local governments are using to reach agreement on allocations that match the needs and desires of their communities. The action, delegated to the LCOG Board by the Lane County Board of Commissioners, to adopt the coordinated population allocations is not a land use decision. A city must adopt its allocation into its comprehensive plan in order to use the allo- cation for its local planning decisions, and this is a separate action by each city made independently of the other participating cities. . 3 The Regional Land Capacity Model was used to calculate the housing units and employees that could be accommodated in each UGB and Potential Future Growth Area, based on agreed-upon assumptions for development types and physical constraints. 4 State law allows cities to base determinations on housing needs on regional data; in this way, the types of housing planned in each UGB can be customized to the community and the housing desired. For ex- ample, a community that sees itself as more urban, may want to provide for apartments rather than sin- gle-family detached housing. 11