ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Calapooia Middle School, 11/19/98

• Locally owned and operated businesses.
• Downtown grocery and drugstores.
• Target family wage jobs and benefits; offer tax benefits (target like urban renewal districts.
• Extend services to zoned industrial land: Lochner.
• Avoid Woodburn exit: concentration of commercial/industrial in rural area.
• Plan E.D. around wetlands to protect.
• Match new employers to workforce skills.
• Strategic incentives for the right type of new industry.
• Review SDC charges to maintain competitive; pursue clean industries (then SDCs could be lower): Brownfields program.
• Develop or improve transportation corridors to potential sites.