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examines the issue of affordable housing in the region in the year 2025. It can be used to identify housing needs within UGBs as part of residential buildable lands analyses. Economy Goal: "Promote a diverse regional economy in the Southern Willamette Valley that fa- cilitates access to quality employment. goods. and services throughout the region, while recognizing the unique advantages of each community." Actions: .The action proposed to meet this goal, for cities that desire to implement it, is to incorporate the regional data base into the comprehensive plan and to use the data and findings from the Strategy to make decisions about the location and types of com- mercial and industrial land within the UGBs. The Regional Economic Opportunities Analysis conducted by ECO Northwest determined that the types and location of em- ployment land designed in the Regional Growth Concept are appropriate to meet the region's employment needs, at least in the next 20 years. Other recommended actions from the Regional Economic Opportunities Analysis are presented in Chapter V. Transportation Goal: "Develop and maintain transportation systems in the region while improving transportation choice and air and water quality." Actions: Endorsement of the Strategy recognizes that the land use element will not be effective in meeting the regional goals if transportation improvements and regional commuter services are not adequate to serve growth. One of the key actions to imple- ment this goal is to amend Transportation System Plans, as needed and appropriate, to address new population and employment allocations and other needs and issues identi- fied in the Strategy. Other actions are: to use the Strategy to guide investments in, and planning for, transportation infrastructure, including regional commuter services and al- ternative transportation facilities; to fully implement 20-year transportation plans; and to work cooperatively at the. regional level and with state and federal transportation agen- cies to address the issue of how to pay for the anticipated transportation infrastructure in the region over the next 20 years and beyond. N~tural Resources, Open Space, and the Environment Goal: "Protect, restore, manage, and enhance important natural resources and open spaces, and maintain high quality air, water, and land resources in the Southern WiI- .Iamette Valley." Actions: The Regional Growth Concept is a "conservation scenario," in that it directs growth into areas where it will have the least impact on environmental resources. The use of the Concept as a guide to development, over time, is a key implementation strat- egy. In terms of mitigating unavoidable impacts, a key action is to research the tool of "conservation banking" in which land areas could be developed as banks for wildlife habitat; and the bank in each area would represent a mixture of habitats that would pro- vide options for restoring or replacing specific habitat. The strategy would be to identify III