HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(v) Existing and forecasted transportation
needs, facilities, routes, and systems;

(vi) Existing and forecasted needs and demand
for housing, and the amount, type, quality, and general location
of housing;

(vii) Existing land uses, forecasts of land
absorption rates or markets, and analyses of the amount, general
location, and interrelationships among different categories of
land use;

(viii) Physical resources and conditions
including, but not limited to, topography, soils, geology and
mineral deposits, hydrology and waterways, wetlands and
shorelines, water and air quality, climate, noise, open spaces,
scenic areas, vegetation, forests, agricultural lands, fisheries,
wildlife and wildlife habitats, and other areas of environmental
or ecological importance or sensitivity;

(ix) Sites, structures, areas, or settings of
archeological, historical, architectural, cultural, or scenic
value or significance;

(x) Extent and general location of physically
blighted or deteriorated areas and factors related thereto;

(xi) Evaluation of the probable consequences of
major recommendations of the plan on the general physical and
social environment and population of the regional district;

(xii) Estimates of the probable consequences on
public revenues and expenditures of major recommendations of the
plan; and

(xiii) Any other matter, element, factor, or
condition determined by the district council or Commission to be
necessary and feasible to the preparation or presentation of the
general plan.

(4) The appropriate district councils may provide, to
the extent necessary and feasible:

(i) That the Commission shall consider various
alternative concepts of growth or development in preparing the
general plan, and shall appropriately describe the alternatives
so considered; and

(ii) That the general plan shall include such
chapters or sections as may be necessary to contain and explain
its recommendations with respect to any element, factor, or
condition set forth in [§ 7-108(a)(3) and 7-108(a)(4)] THIS
PARAGRAPH AND PARAGRAPH (3) OF THIS SUBSECTION.