Metro 2050 has a primary goal to direct
98% of the region’s growth to areas within the
Urban Containment Boundary. Focusing growth within this boundary minimizes urban sprawl and its negative impacts, protects agricultural, rural, and ecologically important lands, and supports the efficient provision of regional infrastructure.
Urban development typically depends on access to regional sewerage services. Metro 2050 reinforces the urban containment strategy by supporting policies to coordinate regional growth and utility planning. It also limits the extension of regional sewerage services into areas outside the Urban Containment Boundary with an Agricultural, Rural, or Conservation and Recreation regional land use designation. This is a unique and critical growth management tool in Metro 2050.
Contextual performance measure
Metro 2050 establishes the performance measure as the number and status of new regional sewerage service connection applications made for areas outside of the Urban Containment Boundary to lands with an Agricultural, Rural, or Conservation and Recreation regional land use designation.
Progress
This contextual measure records the number and status of new regional sewerage service connection applications for non-urban areas.