(1) Urban areas should provide for a balance between commercial growth, employment centers and residential development that ensures livability, preservation of environmental quality, open spaces, variety of housing, provision for high quality basic services at least cost, and orderly transitions between land uses within urban areas.

(2) Commercial, industrial and high density residential development make intensive use of land and should be located in urban areas where sewer and water facilities are already located or can be easily extended.

Except where commercial, tourist commercial, industrial and high density residential land uses are already well-established in rural areas or where resource-based industries locate within resource lands, all commercial, industrial and high density residential land use should be located inside urban growth areas where sewer and water are present or can be extended.

(3) In order to provide stability and predictability to where urban growth and services will occur, urban growth area boundaries should not be amended within the next 10-year period except in the cases of a new prison site, major prison expansion, or new major industry being approved in the immediate vicinity of the Clallam Bay and Sekiu urban growth area. The urban growth boundary would then be re-evaluated to determine if enough land for the facility were already located within the urban growth area as well as commercial and residential lands available to support the new facility and its employees.