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r6mq, D . Urban and Urban i zab l e Land Urban and Urban i zabl e Land This section addresses the need to allow for the orderly and economic extension of public services, the need to provide an orderly conversion of urbanizable to urban land, and the need to provide flexibility for market forces to operate in order to maintain affordable housing choices. For the definitions of urban and urbanizable lands as well as rural lands and the urban growth boundary as used in this section, refer to the Plan Glossary. The undeveloped (urbanizable) area within the urban growth boundary, separating urban and urbanizable land from rural land, has been carefully calculated to include an adequate s.uppl y -to meet demand for a projected population of 293,700 through the end of the planning period (2000) with the addition of the Willow Creek Basin, approximately 25,000 -- 30,000 additional people can be accommodated beyond the projected population for the year 2000. Pages J I -E -1 through II-E-2 deal with the phasing of Willow Creek. However, unless the community consciously decides to limit future expansions of the urban growth boundary, one of several ways to accommodate growth, that boundary will be expanded in future plan updates so that before 2000 it will include more urbanizable area reflecting future population and employment needs than that now depicted' on the diagram. Accordingly, periodic updates of land use needs and revision of the urban growth boundary to reflect extensions of the planning period will ensure that adequate surplus urbanizable land is always available. The key to addressing the needs stated at the beginning of this subsection is not so much the establishment of an urban growth boundary, but maintaining an adequate and reasonable supply of available undeveloped land at any point in time. The "adequate" and "reasonable" tests are the key to the related phasing and surplus land issues. In order to maintain an "adequate" supply of available surplus land to allow development to occur, annexation must take place in advance of demand in order to allow for the provision of public capital improvements, such as sewer trunk lines, arterial streets, and water trunk lines. Most capital improvement pro- grams are "middle-range" type plans geared three to six years into the future. The time between annexation and the point o f - f i n i s h e d construction usually involves several steps: (1) the actual annexation and rezon i ng , of the land (with accompanying public hearing processes, including Boundary Commission approval); (2) filing and approval of a subdivision or planned unit develop- ment (with accompanying public hearing processes ; (3) extension of public capital improvements tin accordance with programming and funding availability) ; and (4) construction of the private development (including local extension of streets, sidewalks, sewers, water el ectri.c i ty, and construction of dwell- ing units or businesses). The time period between initiating annexation and sale of a home or opening 'of a business varies, but can easily take from two to six years. II -D -1