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3. LCDC goals; and 4. Encouragement of devel opme.nt within urban areas before conversion of urban i zabl a areas. As noted in the draft Study and analysis of other Statewide Goals (see for example Goals 2, 3 and 11) , the Willow Creek Basin has been identified in the adopted Eugene - Springfield Metropolitan Area General Plan as a major growth area of the community and included within the adopted urban growth boundary of that document. This is consistent with earlier a n a l y s i s conducted by the city of Eugene, which identified the western and southwestern portions of the metropolitan area as primary growth areas for Eugene and indicates that these areas can: 1. be provided with public services in the most cost- effective manner; 2. provide a choice of land for future residential, industrial and commercial activities in order to respond to various market needs; 3. respond to direction established by the Statewide Goals; and 4. respond to local goals to maintain a compact urban growth form. These are examples of the reasons that the Willow Creek Basin was ultimately chosen to be included within the urban growth boundary. The W i l l o w Creek Special Area Study refines broad land-use allocations for the Basin provided in the Metropolitan Plan, and through policies addresses the need to accomodate some of the metropolitan areas long-range growth anticipated in the Metro Plan. The W i l l o w Creek Study attempts to balance the need for intensive land uses and employment opportunities with the need to respond to existing conditions, e.g. environmental concerns, as part of the urbanization of the Basin. Early annexation of the industrial ly -designated land and the wetlands area is meant to fulfill the local goals of providing a sufficient supply of development-ready industrial land and to protect a Goal 5 resource. As Policy A--2 of the Study provides, conversion of the remainder of the Basin from urbani zabl e to urban land will be deferred. The Study also responds to a basic premise of the compact urban growth concept which directs that, intensive urban land-uses most appropriately occur within an approved urban growth boundary --- a foundation of Goal 14 concerns. Remaining Goals 15 through 19 -- Not Ap-pl i cabl e .