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commercial land still available. This is 150 acres mare than the projectedtwenty-year demand. Since no office commercial lands were impacted, it must be assumed that all reduction would be to the non-office commercial category. The projected demand for this category is 423 acres. According to the Commercial Lands Study, the inventory of buildable commercial land includes 4G5 acres of land designated in the Metro Plan for commercial use, but not zoned far office use. An additional 197 acres is included in the inventory that is not categorized between office and non-office use, though a percentage of it can be assumed available for non-office commercial. Using only the 465 acres explicitly denoted in the Commercial Lands Study, after subtracting the 18.5 acres that could be removed by protection of wetlands in these amendments, 451 acres are left, which is 23 acres more than the projected demand for this category. The foregoing analysis concludes that even if all of the commercial and industrial undesignated wetlands were removed from the buildable lands inventory by designating them for protection, there would be adequate land in the inventory to the meet the project 20-year demand for industrial and commercial land. Since the policy changes clearly do not move the Plan toward more protection, and since even removing the maximum possible acres from the land supply would leave adequate buildable land in both categories, these amendments are consistent with Goal 9. Goal 10 -Housing The purpose of Goal 10 is to provide for housing needs of the citizens of the state. Findings: As discussed and analyzed above, the proposed policy amendments da not move the plan toward protecting more wetlands. There is no evidence that the proposed criteria for designating wetlands will result in more protection of residential lands than the current criteria. The Metro olitan Area Residential Land Stud : Su 1 and Demand Anal sis X1991}, describes the supply and demand for residential lands within the Eugene-Springf eld Urban Growth Boundary. This report is the 1959 update to the residential supply and demand analysis prepared for the Metropolitan Area General Plan. According to the findings contained in this report, 11,414 acres of vacant, buildable residential land were available in the Metro area in 1989.5 The twenty-year demand projection for vacant, buildable residential land was between 7,41Q and 8,23 Q acres.6 Metro olitan Area Residential Lands Stud Eugene Planning and Development Department, Clty of Springfield Development Services Department, Lane Council of Governments, dune,1991, p.44. Ibid., p.1 D3 . Policy Amendments ordinance, exhibit B (Statewide Planning Goal ~'indings~ Page I.I