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(1) Comprehensive plans for planning areas subject to this division shall include policies stating the economic development objectives for the planning area. (2) For urban areas of over 2,500 in population policies shall be based on the analysis prepared in response to OAR 660-009-0015 and shall provide conclusions about the following: (a) Community Development Objectives. The plan shall state the overall objectives for economic development in the planning area and identify categories or particular types of industrial and commercial uses desired by the community. Plans may include policies to maintain existing categories, types or levels of industrial and commercial uses; (b) Commitment to Provide Adequate Sites and Facilities. Consistent with policies adopted to meet subsection (a) of this section, the plan shall include policies committing the city or county to designate an adequate number of sites of suitable sizes, types and locations and ensure necessary public facilities through the public facilities plan for the planning area. Stat. Auth.: ORS 183 & ORS 197 Stats. Implemented: ORS 197.712 Hist.: LCDC 4-1986, f. & ef. 10-10-86 660-009-0025 Designation of Lands for Industrial and Commercial Uses Measures adequate to implement policies adopted pursuant to OAR 660-009-0020 shall be adopted. Appropriate implementing measures include amendments to plan and zone map designations, land use regulations, and public facility plans: (1) Identification of Needed Sites. The plan shall identify the approximate number and acreage of sites needed to accommodate industrial and commercial uses to implement plan policies. The need for sites should be specified in several broad "site categories," (e.g., light industrial, heavy industrial, commercial office, commercial retail, highway commercial, etc.) combining compatible uses with similar site requirements. It is not necessary to provide a different type of site for each industrial or commercial use which may locate in the planning area. Several broad site categories will provide for industrial and commercial uses likely to occur in most planning areas. (2) Long-Term Supply of Land. Plans shall designate land suitable to meet the site needs identified in section (1) of this rule. The total acreage of land designated in each site category shall at least equal the projected land needs for each category during the 20-year planning period. Jurisdictions need not designate sites for neighborhood commercial uses in urbanizing areas if they have adopted plan policies which provide clear standards for redesignation of residential land to provide for such uses. Designation of industrial or