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has development constraints such as slopes, floodplain, hydric soils and wetlands. Development potential is reduced in Springfield on flood plain areas and in Eu ene on .. g remaining potential wetlands due to moderate constraints that can support a less intense level of development. 6. Anticipated federal regulations affecting fish habitats in the Pacific Northwest and new applications for regulating under-designated, saturated, hydric sails by fire on's Division g of State Lands, as well as other factors, make a definitive calculation of the buildable land supply difficult. The adopted buildable land supply inventory represents the local jurisdiction's best assessment of the amount of buildable land that will be available within the urban growth boundary until the year 2015. 7. In 1995, approximately 28 percent of the buildable residential land su 1 did not have pp Y public services, primarily sewer. Of this total,1,136 acres or 12 percent will not be served for ten or more years; 521 acres X5.5 percent} will be served in five to ten ears; y 476 acres ~5 percent} m three to four years, and 520 acres X5.5 percent} in one to two years. 8. In the aggregate, nonresidential land uses consume approximately 32 ercent of buildable p residential land. These nonresidential uses include churches, day care centers, arks, p streets, schools, neighborhood commercial, etc. 9. Some of the residential land demand will be meet through redevelopment and inf~11. Residential infill is occurring primarily in areas with larger, single-family lots that have surplus vacant land or passed over small vacant parcels. Redevelopment is occurrin . g primarily in the downtown Eugene and west University areas, where less intensive land uses, such as parking lots and single-family dwellings are being replaced with higher density, multi-family development. 10. Since the last Periodic Review of the .Metro Plan in 1987, there have been onl two • .y minor expansions of the UGB for res~dent~ally designated land. Each expansion was less than one acre in size. 11. The UGB defines the extent of urban building and service expansion over the lannin P g period. There are geographic and resource constraints that will limit expansion of the UGB in the future. At such time that expansion is warranted, it will be necessary to cross a river, develop agricultural land, or cross over a ridge where the provision of public services and facilities will be expensive. 12. Since adoption of the .Metro Plan, the supply of residential lands has been negatively affected (diminished} due to federal, state, and local regulations to protect wetlands, critical habitat of endangeredlthreatened species, and other similar natural resources, This trend is likely to continue in order to meet future Statewide Planning Goal 5 and stormwater quality protection requirements.