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"sustainable growth" <br /> • Protect the environment, promote social justice and equity, and <br /> ensure sound fiscal management, while facilitating economic <br /> development <br /> • Low-polluting industries, low water usage <br /> • Greenness <br /> • Use what you've got, focus on assets <br /> • Affordability: pay attention to tax burden <br /> "enhanced revenue" <br /> • Expanding revenue sources: go beyond residential property tax <br /> • Change ratio of residential to commercial tax base <br /> • Cost of services vs. benefit of bringing in more residents. How will <br /> retail attract workers? <br /> • Being able to provide jobs and housing to handle inevitable <br /> population growth <br /> • Promote ED that produces more revenue for county than it <br /> received previously, after factoring in the costs of providing <br /> capital funding and county services <br /> "community values" <br /> • Education: life-long learning, education at all levels <br /> • Social equity: heterogeneous, inclusive, sharing benefits of <br /> prosperity, lower poverty rate, higher affordability <br /> • High quality of life <br /> • Progressive on environmental issues, protection of natural <br /> environment <br /> • Focus on attracting businesses we do want instead of keeping out <br /> businesses we don't want (removing regulations that are a hurdle) <br /> • Regulation: flexibility vs. certainty? <br /> • Clarity of standards (regarding regulation) <br /> • Promotion of well-being of all county residents <br /> VI. Jonathan Morgan's presentation: Economic Development in Orange County <br /> (OC) <br /> Three main approaches to ED: <br /> • Recruiting new businesses <br /> • Supporting and retaining existing businesses <br /> • Growing new businesses <br /> Supplementary strategies: <br />