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Adopting this new population forecast is also consistent with the requirements of OAR 660 -008 Interpretation of Goal 10 Housing and OAR 660 -0024 Urban Growth Boundaries because, once again, the population forecast must be adopted into the comprehensive plan before the residential lands determination can be confirmed and adopted into the comprehensive plan. Goal 11— Public Facilities and Services To plan and develop a timely, orderly and efficient arrangement of public facilities and services to serve as a framework for urban and rural development. A population forecast does not directly affect the public facilities plan until the buildable lands inventories necessary to support that forecast are adjusted. The location and/or density increases that will occur to support the new forecasts must be provided with adequate levels of urban services. In the event Springfield adopts new inventories or makes adjustments to permitted densities causing greater demand for public infrastructure, the City will evaluate these services and where necessary, propose additional Metro Plan amendments in compliance with this goal. Goal 12 - Transportation To provide and encourage a safe, convenient and economic transportation system. The transportation system plan is similar to the public facilities and services plan in that the transportation system is designed to accommodate future growth at densities prescribed in the plan's policies.. Land development cannot occur in the absence of infrastructure and that includes transportation; but neither the goal nor the OARS require an analysis of this service before changes are proposed to the inventories, even though those inventory changes cannot occur without the population forecast. The obligation in 197.304 to adopt new population forecasts before the inventory analysis is completed is consistent with the purpose and timing of transportation analysis required by Goal 12; OAR 660 -12 Transportation and OAR 660 -024 Urban Growth Boundaries. Goal 13 — Energy Conservation To conserve energy. 3. Land use planning should, to the maximum extent possible, seek to recycle and re -use vacant land and those uses which are not energy efficient. There are no requirements in the rule or statute that require the energy element of the plan to be amended to correspond with the new population forecast. Any subsequent changes to land use designations, including adjustments to the UGB must comply with the applicable provisions of this goal and interpretive rules. ' In fact, the transportation planning rule requirements in OAR 660 - 012 -0060 requiring an impact analysis on transportation systems as a result of UGB amendments "need not be applied to a UGB amendment if the land added to the UGB is zoned as urbanizable land, either by retaining the zoning that was assigned prior to inclusion in the boundary or by assigning interim zoning that does not allow development that would generate more vehicle trips than development allowed by the zoning assigned prior to inclusion in the boundary." (OAR 660 - 024 - 0020(1) (d).