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37 <br /> Create an economic development strategy that encourages the <br /> recruitment of businesses that will provide access to essentials. We <br /> discussed the desire for beauty salons and barbershops, ethnic restaurants, <br /> convenient stores, and small hardware stores. A strategy should promote and <br /> enable the right kind of community-connected economic development for the <br /> location, traffic flow, and population. <br /> Provide connections to job training and living wage jobs. Our young <br /> people have endless potential. New development, especially on the Greene Tract, <br /> should provide a diverse set of job trainings and living wage jobs that will help <br /> strengthen our community <br /> Provide space for smaller Create smaller and more affordable business spaces, to keep costs <br /> local businesses to start-up lower and provide diverse opportunities. One example of this would be <br /> and serve the to allow for market-style kiosks for people to rent for shorter-term leases. Another <br /> neighborhood example would be to create 4-6 small retail shops together on the right corridors. <br /> Smaller individualized business spaces allow for a more affordable entry needed <br /> for many local businesses to succeed. <br /> Provide special zoning for small community-based businesses and a <br /> wider range of home-based businesses. Current zoning does not allow for <br /> small, community-based businesses and limits home-based businesses <br /> significantly. We have marked locations in which this might be viable on the <br /> included maps. <br /> Ease signage regulations for churches and community-based <br /> businesses to have visible signage. The signage restrictions in Chapel Hill <br /> and Carrboro make it difficult for home-based businesses and churches to have <br /> decent signage. <br /> 20 <br />