The city planning commission in the Southern Oregon town of Jacksonville recently passed a motion to reduce the acreage of a proposed urban growth boundary to more accurately reflect the town's population growth trends.
The Jacksonville City Planning Commission voted recently to reduce the amount of land the city will allow to be developed by amending the city's urban growth boundary. Hundreds of the town's 2,500 residents appealed to the planning commission to reduce the amount of land needed for the boundary, asking that it more accurately reflect the growth rate of the city. Just months earlier, the commission voted to reduce the city's official population growth rate estimate from 2.5% to 1.25%. This reduction translated into a removal of more than 80 acres from the urban growth boundary.
"The population and acreage reduction helps draw Jacksonville's UGB planning process into more reasonable focus, said Jacksonville Councilman Bill Leap, a council liaison to the city's planning commission."
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