The GMA does not support this argument. Limited areas of more intensive rural development are permitted by the GMA, including necessary public facilities and public services to serve the limited area. Petitioners also argue that if an area is designated as an UGA, sewer service and urban services should be included within the UGA and the County has failed to address why it would be necessary to connect UGAs with sewer lines. Gain PHB, at 4-5. Petitioners offer no statutory provisions to support their assertion that sewer lines must be confined within the boundaries of UGAs and cannot pass through rural areas.
Petitioners object to the redesignation because it converts forest lands and allows urban densities.
The GMA requires the County to conserve forest lands of long-term commercial significance. The Gains, therefore, request that the Board find that the conversion of the Crystal Mt. Forest Lands does not comply with the Act s requirements that FLs be preserved. Petitioners conclusory statement does not explain how the redesignation of these forest lands, already part of a Forest Service Special Use Permit for a ski resort, fails to conserve forest lands in Pierce County. The GMA s MPR provisions explicitly allow MPRs to constitute urban growth outside of urban growth areas if certain conditions are met. Petitioners primary argument is that the MPR does not meet the GMA requirement that the Plan and development regulations preclude new urban or suburban land uses in the vicinity of the existing resort.