The full text of the Urban Growth Management Functional Plan is summarized by its requirements, updated March 2019:
Title 1 (Sections 3.07.110 – 3.07.120) – Housing Capacity
- requires a city or county maintain or increase its housing capacity (except as provided in section 3.07.120) per the Regional Framework Plan which calls for a compact urban form and a "fair share" approach to meeting housing needs
Title 2 (Sections 3.07.210 – 3.07.220) – Regional Parking Policy
- repealed; transferred to the Regional Transportation Functional Plan, Section 3.08
Title 3 (Sections 3.07.310 – 3.07.360) – Water Quality and Flood Management
- protects beneficial water uses and functions and values of resources within Water Quality and Flood Management Areas by limiting or mitigating impacts from development activities and protecting life and property from dangers associated with flooding
Title 4 (Sections 3.07.410 – 3.07.450) – Industrial and Other Employment Areas
- provides and protects a supply of sites for employment by limiting types and scale of non-industrial uses in regionally significant industrial areas, industrial and employment areas
- provides benefits of "clustering" to industries that operate more productively and efficiently when in proximity to each other
- protects the capacity and efficiency of the transportation system for movement of goods and services
- encourages other types of employment in centers, corridors, station communities and main Streets.
Title 5 (Sections 3.07.510 – 3.07.540) - Neighbor Cities and Rural Reserves
Title 6 (Sections 3.07.610 – 3.07.650) – Centers, Corridors, Station Communities and Main Streets
- calls for enhancements of these areas as principal centers of urban life via actions and investments by cities and counties, complemented by regional investments
Title 7 (Sections 3.07.710 – 3.07.750) – Housing Choice
- implements policies of the Regional Framework Plan regarding establishment of voluntary affordable housing production goals to be adopted by local governments, and assistance from them on reports on progress toward increasing the affordable housing supply
Title 8 (Sections 3.07.810 – 3.07.870) – Compliance Procedures
- ensures all cities and counties are fairly and equitably held to the same standards and that the Metro 2040 Growth Concept is implemented
- sets out compliance procedures and establishes a process for time extensions and exemptions to Metro Code requirements
- requires Metro’s chief operating officer submit an annual compliance report: how cities and counties are complying with the Urban Growth Management Functional Plan’s requirements in Metro Code Chapter 3.07, titles 1, 3, 4, 11 and 13; and how they are complying with the Regional Transportation Functional Plan’s requirements Metro Code Chapter 3.08, titles 1-5.
Title 9 (Sections 3.07.910-3.07.920) – Performance Measures
Title 10 (Section 3.07.1010) – Definitions
Title 11 (Sections 3.07.1105 – 3.07.1140) – Planning for New Urban Areas
- guides planning of areas brought into the urban growth boundary for conversion from rural to urban use
Title 12 (Sections 3.07.1210 – 3.07.1240) – Protection of Residential Neighborhoods
- protects existing residential neighborhoods from air and water pollution, noise and crime, and provides adequate levels of public services
Title 13 (Sections 3.07.1310 – 3.07.1370) – Nature in Neighborhoods
- conserves, protects and restores a continuous ecologically viable streamside corridor system integrated with upland wildlife habitat and the urban landscape
Title 14 (Sections 3.07.1405 –3.07.1465) – Urban Growth Boundary
- prescribes criteria and procedures for amendments to the urban growth boundary to provide a clear transition from rural to urban development, an adequate supply of urban land to accommodate long-term population and employment, and a compact urban form