Smaller Cities Alternative

This alternative has the most dispersed regional growth pattern. It would disperse growth within the region’s urban growth area – with Smaller Suburban Cities and Unincorporated Urban Growth areas receiving a sizable amount of population and employment growth. Redevelopment in what are now small downtowns would produce many more significant, dispersed local employment centers throughout the region. These smaller downtown areas would also develop with new apartments, condominiums and townhouses. Unincorporated Urban Growth Areas – currently the outskirts of small cities and towns – would experience significant new commercial and residential development. There would also be a substantial amount of single-family housing built in currently undeveloped Rural Areas.

Growth that is currently planned for Metropolitan Cities and Core Suburban Cities would shift to Smaller Suburban Cities and Unincorporated Urban Areas.