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21 <br /> Slide #36 <br /> HOUSING IN OMNGE COU- <br /> How About Urban Growth Boundaries? <br /> Orange County maintains a rural ❑ <br /> buffer zone surrounding Chapel <br /> Hill and Carrboro that acts as an <br /> urban growth boundary. <br /> Classically, we would expect: ❑ ❑ <br /> ❑ New development on the <br /> outside edge,increasing ❑ <br /> transportation times and costs. ❑ ❑ <br /> ❑ Higher housing prices in the ❑ ❑ <br /> core,reducing affordability. <br /> •...A N. I N f T 1 i U T 1 <br /> Commissioner Greene referenced research on Portland's urban growth boundary, which <br /> found that contrary to common claims, housing price growth in Portland wasn't unusual for a <br /> western city experiencing economic expansion. She said that both Denver and Salt Lake City <br /> without growth boundaries experienced similar price increases during the 1990s. <br /> Yonah Freemark said Portland is a great example for preserving agricultural and natural <br /> spaces, and reducing segregation. He said that Orange County is not an island and that may be <br /> why there is development in Chatham County, because growth is constrained only within Orange <br /> County. He said that the county cannot act alone. <br /> Slide #37 <br /> Implications and Opportunities • <br /> Orange County <br />