What is an Urban Growth Area?
Urban growth areas are areas around incorporated cities and towns within which urban growth shall be encouraged and outside of which growth can occur only if it is not urban in nature.

Urban growth areas are to include enough land to accommodate the twenty-year population growth projected for the City or Town. The Growth Management Act limits the land that a city may annex to land within its urban growth area.

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1. What is a Comprehensive Plan?
2. What is the annual Comprehensive Plan amendment process?
3. What is annexation and how does it work?
4. What is an Urban Growth Area?
5. What is the Growth Management Act?