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Draft <br />14. Subregional Planning Element <br />^ Improve housing affordability <br />^ Increase transportation choices and efficiency <br />^ Protect and steward natural habitat, open space, and agricultural land <br />^ Improve social and economic equity <br />^ Promote efficiency and fiscal health <br />^ Conserve resources, promote sustainability, and improve environmental quality <br />^ Protect public health and safety <br />Strategies to achieve goals related to focused growth and development in the Focusing our Vision <br />Program include: <br />^ Encourage infill and the efficient use of land capacity within existing communities <br />^ Provide for compact, complete, resource-efficient communities near existing or planned <br />transit and other infrastructure <br />^ Provide opportunities fox people to live near their jobs and work near their homes <br />^ Encourage a mix of land uses with jobs, housing, retail, schools, parks, recreation, and <br />services in proximity <br />^ Locate development in areas served and likely to be served by frequent passenger rail, bus, <br />and/or ferry service <br />^ Support community revitalization without displacing current residents <br />^ Ensure that all socio-economic groups benefit from regional change <br />^ Use existing infrastructure capacity and maximize return on new infrastructure investments <br />^ Reduce the number and length of auto trips and facilitate walking and biking <br />^ Maintain goods movement corridors and retain land uses that support related distribution <br />and industrial uses <br />^ Direct development so as to promote and protect public health and safety, avoid hazards, <br />and/or mitigate development impacts <br />^ Reserve land to accommodate future growth at appropriate densities <br />Strategies to achieve goals related to resource protection and conservation include: <br />• Maintain the productive function of lands fox agriculture and other resource needs <br />^ Protect and restore wildlife corridors and habitat <br />• Preserve the natural flow and recharge of water and support ecosystem processes <br />^ Protect and enhance significant open space and recreation areas and networks <br />^ Protect scenic, historic, and cultural resources that contribute to the region's identity <br />Subregional Planning 060507, clean 14-5 City Council 6/5/2007 <br />