POLICIES
ENCOURAGING ORDERLY URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION OF OPEN SPACE
- The Commission
encourages will planned, orderly, and efficient urban development patterns
for all developing areas. Also, the county, cities, and those districts
providing urban services, are encouraged to develop and implement plans
and policies which will provided for well-planned, orderly and efficient
urban development patterns, with consideration of preserving permanent
open space lands within those urban patterns.
- Development of
existing vacant non open space, and nonprime agricultural land within
an agency's boundaries is encouraged prior to further annexation and
development. However, where open land adjacent to the agencies are of
low agricultural, scenic, or biological value, annexation of those lands
may be considered over development of prime agricultural land already
existing within an agency's jurisdiction.
- Proposals to annex
undeveloped or agricultural parcels to cities or districts providing
urban services shall demonstrate that urban development is imminent
for all or a substantial portion of the proposal area; that urban development
will be contiguous with existing or proposed development; and that a
planned, orderly, and efficient urban development pattern will result.
Proposals resulting in a leapfrog, non-contiguous urban pattern will
be discouraged.
- Consideration
shall be given to permitting sufficient vacant land within each city
and/or agency in order to encourage economic development, reduce the
cost of housing, and allow timing options for physical and orderly development.
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