IMPORTANT NOTE: "Planning for Residential Growth" is a workbook to assist urban area governments in planning for housing and for an adequate land supply for housing needs inside Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs). The workbook will be especially helpful to those conducting housing needs analysis, buildable lands inventories, and UGB expansion evaluations. Local governments and citizens interested in urban area planning in Oregon will find this workbook to be an essential tool. Although the workbook was published in 1997, much of the information is applicable today (2005). The workbook contains detailed methodologies, guidelines and other helpful tips intended for local governments engaged in periodic review or other major updates of urban area plans. Users need to be aware that Goal 14 and ORS 197.296 changed subsequent to the publication of this workbook. However, those changes did not make substantial changes to the basic methodologies for inventorying buildable land and determining housing need. To learn about subsequent Goal and statute changes, users should compare the versions of these laws contained in the workbook with current versions of Goal 14 and ORS 197.296, available from the DLCD website at http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/index.shtml.