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Develop the center of Efland community as a small business and small retail location for residents of northern and central Orange County. Businesses paying a living wage: Implement acounty-wide living wage policy so Orange County workers can afford to live here. Firms that build affordable housing: identify which ordinances are responsible for increasing housing costs or impeding the construction of workforce housing. Support for Businesses • Suggest combining [initial strategies] 1 & 2 into one strategy to focus on properly supporting, incentivizing EXISTING BUSINESSES (where it may be argued there is greater likelihood of,job creation, success, permanence) • Related to #3: Review different Orange County communities' micro loan criteria to see how realistic they are...(e. g., OCEDC pool has never made a loan, yet Carrboro has made many with its fund) and evaluate the economic impact of loans made. • Related to #17: Analysis oflocal ordinances to determine which ones need reworking or deleting to improve the creation of more affordable housing, he., identify which ordinances aze responsible for increasing housing costs or impeding the construction of work force housing. • Engage (via outreach) more for-profit businesses in strategic planning process • Develop, recruit and support businesses to choose to stay in Orange County as a place of business so that the county is thought of as "business friendly". • Let's think about workforce development. How can the county help businesses support their employees? How can we recruit and retain a solid workforce? • Create a county position to assist businesses in developing family friendly policies. Support for Workers, Esp. Low-Income • Modify a variety of strategies to include social human services-affordable housing, addressing needs of the less advantaged residents in our county. • Support a diverse workforce by providing sufficient workforce support in areas such as housing, transportation, childcare, and education. • Ensure aworld-class education for all students to enable them to contribute positively to the economic structure and to attract and retain business and industry • bnplement a county-wide living wage policy so Orange County workers can afford to live here. • Work with colleges/schools to train students to work in industries that we are trying to attract to Orange County, i.e, build in a work force Land Use & Infrastructure Planning • Use transfer of development rights (TDR) and/or purchase of development rights (PDR) to focus development/redevelopment in urbanized locations and protect natural and farm lands.. Extend water and sewer service to a113 EDDs tluough agreements with Durham/Mebane/Hillsborough. Make sure zoning is agreed upon by all governments in next 1-2 years,