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Layer: Urban and Rural Reserves (ID: 26)

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Name: Urban and Rural Reserves

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Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The urban and rural reserves reflect a new approach to managing growth in our region. Across the region, civic leaders are engaged in a collaborative planning process to consider the shape of our region over the next several decades. Citizens and officials are working in concert to craft policies and choose investments that will enhance existing communities. As part of this work, Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties and Metro led a regional effort to identify land for urban or rural use for the next half century. Under the Oregon land use system, Metro maintains the urban growth boundary (often referred to as the UGB) surrounding the Portland metropolitan area. This line encircling the region separates urban communities from rural lands. Every five years Metro calculates how much acreage is needed to maintain a 20-year supply of land to accommodate projected urban growth and expands the boundary when necessary to respond to that need. Under this longstanding system, every five years the citizens of the region wrestled with identifying areas for urban expansion. This system kept landowners at the edge of the boundary in limbo, never knowing whether or when their lands might be destined for urbanization. It also made it difficult to invest in our communities. After the last urban growth boundary decision, the region's leaders proposed a solution. As a result, in 2007, the Oregon Legislature approved Senate Bill 1011. This legislation enabled us to identify and designate areas outside the current urban growth boundary that are best suited for future housing and employment as urban reserves. SB 1011 also provided a new opportunity to identify areas that should remain working farms and forests or natural areas for the next 40 to 50 years.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>

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