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Attachment C <br /> <br />C. Growth Management Goals, Findings, and Policies <br /> <br />To effectively control the potential for urban sprawl and scattered urbanization, compact growth <br />and the urban growth boundary (UGB) are, and will remain, the primary growth management <br />techniques for directing geographic patterns of urbanization in the community. In general, this <br />means the filling in of vacant and underutilized lands, as well as redevelopment inside the UGB. <br /> <br />Outward expansion of the UGB will occur only when it is proven necessary according to the <br />policies set forth in this Metro Plan, particularly in this element. <br /> <br /> Goals <br /> <br />1. Use urban, urbanizable, and rural lands efficiently. <br /> <br />2. Encourage orderly and efficient conversion of land from rural to urban uses in response <br /> to urban needs, taking into account metropolitan and statewide goals. <br /> <br />3. Protect rural lands best suited for non-urban uses from incompatible urban encroachment. <br /> <br />Findings and Policies <br /> <br />F~d~gs <br /> <br />1. Many metropolitan areas within the United States that have not implemented geographic <br /> growth management techniques suffer from scattered or leapfrog urban growth that <br /> leaves vacant and underutilized land in its path and encourages isolated residential <br /> developments far from metropolitan centers. Until adoption of the 1990 Plan's urban <br /> service area concept, portions of this metropolitan area were characterized by these <br /> phenomena. <br /> <br />2. Beneficial results of compact urban growth include: <br /> <br /> a. Use of most vacant let~over parcels where utilities assessed to abutting property <br /> owners are already in place. <br /> <br /> b. Protection of productive forest lands, agricultural lands, and open space from <br /> premature urban development. <br /> <br /> c. More efficient use of limited fuel energy resources and greater use of bicycle and <br /> pedestrian facilities due to less miles of streets and less auto dependence than <br /> otherwise would be required. <br /> <br /> d. Decreased acreage of leapfrogged vacant land, thus resulting in more efficient and <br /> less costly provision and uSe of utilities, roads, and public services such as fire <br /> protection. <br /> <br /> II-C-1 <br /> <br /> <br />