Eugene launches new data dashboard to track growth

The City of Eugene's Growth Monitoring Program, was established by the Envision Eugene Comprehensive Plan with the goal of having growth-related data that is complete and relevant to the community's future needs. Identifying growth trends, such as knowing how fast Eugene is growing and the rate of development, helps inform whether additional strategies are needed to grow more compact or to grow the land supply by expanding Eugene's urban growth boundary.

The Growth Monitoring Program is excited to share the second annual Growth Monitoring Report for 2023 and the report's attachment, Updated Data Details - 2023 (for a deeper dive into the data). There are two types of growth monitoring reports that provide snapshots that compare current data to previously adopted assumptions about Eugene's future growth:

• A comprehensive report is required every five years and includes more data, trend information, comparisons to other cities, analysis and detailed data appendices (see the 2021 Comprehensive Growth Monitoring Report).
• An annual report is intended to keep tabs on the key data needed for urban growth boundary planning, look for potential trends of concern and keep data collection up to date for the next comprehensive report. The annual report is shorter, focusing on the key data for growth monitoring and has much less analysis, trends and comparisons.

For an even more high-level snapshot, check out the newly launched Growth Monitoring Data Dashboard. The dashboard includes charts highlighting a subset of key data related to Eugene's growth and development in a more easily accessible and digestible format and allows users to download datasets. The dashboard also includes maps showing building permit locations for new housing and new employment buildings and additions. This is the first phase of the dashboard, with more monitoring data to come as the dashboard continues to develop.

For more information visit the Growth Monitoring Program website.

Additionally, this work is aligned with the City's broad effort toward Strategic Plan goals working to address urgent community needs to help stabilize the cost of housing and to advance climate action and community resilience.

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