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BooK 103 FACE 200 <br />Commissioner Ginn asked if the statement on page 45 was accurate, and Director <br />Keating assured her it was. <br />Director Keating advised that we have a residential allocation ratio that is over 4 <br />which indicates we can accommodate 4 times our 2020 need. The numbers on page 61 <br />relate to how much land will be developed in each of those categories. Staff is not saying <br />that these changes have to be done for "need" purposes, but for the area to develop in a <br />compact manner, appropriate densities are being suggested to be put in the appropriate <br />places. <br />Commissioner Ginn and Director Keating discussed their different philosophies. He <br />suggested that in an ideal world, everything would develop nicely with no vacant land <br />parcels and no leap frog development. The intent is that everything inside the urban service <br />area be developed except conservation land. <br />Commissioner Adams concluded that the historical agricultural uses are not being <br />protected in the urban service area or even the edge of it, and Director Keating said she was <br />correct. She understood the feelings of the people who did not favor these changes and what <br />Commissioner Ginn was saying. <br />Discussion continued on philosophies. Director Keating stated he hoped that staff <br />would not have to come to them in the future to expand the urban service area. He explained <br />how Portland, Oregon has a very strict urban growth boundary by ensuring that land within <br />the urban service area is used more efficiently. <br />LAND USE ELEMENT <br />Director Keating called attention to a handout that Chief of Long Range Planning <br />Sasan Rohani was distributing concerning changes to Objective 18. He described it as a <br />work -in -progress and pointed out two things concerning it: staff is proposing that there be <br />a density bonus for developers that do TND (traditional neighborhood design) and allowing <br />some of the property currently outside the urban service area, if contiguous to the urban <br />service area and developed in conjunction with property in the urban service area as a TND <br />community to have some urban uses outside the urban service area and to increase the <br />densities for that property somewhat. He thought this was an important part of the plan and <br />represented where planning is going in a lot of initiatives. <br />16 <br />OCTOBER 29, 1997 <br />M M <br />