What Are The Four Alternatives?
After approximately two years of outreach and public input, PSRC has identified four alternatives for evaluation in this Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Growth Targets Extended, Metropolitan Cities, Larger Cities, and Smaller Cities. None of these is defined as a preferred alternative.
The alternatives provide a range of further future population and employment growth patterns based on the regional geographies. Each alternative reflects a different set of choices for accommodating growth in cities, rural areas and unincorporated urban areas on a regional scale.
Alternatives Maps
1. Continue as Planned
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2. Focus Growth in Bigger Cities
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3. Focus Growth in Suburban Cities
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4. Focus Growth in Smaller Cities and Towns
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Definition of Alternatives - Regional Growth Alternatives Comparison
The following table summarizes and compares the four alternatives, which represent a wide, but realistic range of regional growth options for examination in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement. This range will provide flexibility for decision makers to select a Preferred Alternative - and includes the potential for developing a Preferred Alternative that is a hybrid of any of the four alternatives analyzed in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
