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- Communities should plan and design their pedestrian systems to make walking safe and convenient for the elderly. - Public mass transit is most economically feasible in more densely populated and compact urban areas. 4 - Volunteer and special transit programs have important roles to play. 4 - The retired themselves make up an important component of volunteer drivers, providing 68 percent of volunteer drivers nationally. 5 - "L,and use decisions must be made with an eye to their implications for the demands that they will place on the transportation system. Taken together, such changes will allow older persons to maintain their mobility and thereby much of their independence." Goal 14 - Urbanisation. This goal requires that urban growth boundaries ~UGB's} be established to assure compact and efficient urban growth within UGB's while protecting rural resource lands outside UGB's. Use of the subject site for affordable, medium-density housing promotes this objective in many ways, some of which have been described in the discussion of the ~ energy, transportation, and facilities goals, above. In addition, correction of the plan and zone designations on the Burkland property helps reduce the need to convert rural resource lands to urban sands. Gptimum, timely, and efficient use of the limited supply of urban land is essential to avoiding outward pressure on the Urban Growth Boundary. Misallacations of urban lands consign those lands to a market purgatory, while the requirements of other urban land use goals go unmet. In some cases, a major misallocation means that the nusallocated property stagnates while two other sites must be found to satisfy two unmet needs: ~1} the need for which the nusallocated land is intended, and ~2} the need for which the misallocated land is actually suited, In other cases, the need for which the misallacated land is intended is satisfied by an alternative site such as the Giustina site just south ~ of the sub ject property}. Even then, a resource is wasted while another need either goes unmet or must be satisfied by an expansion of the urban ~ growth boundary. The discussion under the Econom and Housin Goals, above, demonstrates that the Metro y ~ Area has been quite liberal in its allocation of industrial lands but quite conservative in its allocation of land for medium density residential, .and that it has not been successful in effectively allocating any land for affordable low-income housing. These needs must be met somewhere, and the first place to look is at lands which experience, analysis, and the market show to have been improperly designated in the first place. The subject site is such a tract, The ro osed redesignation will allow it to be tailored for an optimum use as PP buffer, commercial, and residential use. Springwood Plan Amendment Application Applicant's Proposed Findings March ZU,1991 Drab Page 18