Grant County Comprehensive Planning

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Grant County Comprehensive Planning

• Economic Development
• Susan Sloper, SWWRPC
• March 27, 2008

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What is economic development?
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What is CommunityEconomic Development?

• A process for improving economic opportunities
  for business owners, investors, and workers.
• Jobs
• Tax Base
• Personal Income
• Competitive Advantage

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Community Economic Development is

• A process that organizes, analyzes, plans, and
  applies human and financial resources to tasks
  for improving economic well-being and quality of
  life.

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Economic Development

• Then
• industrial recruitment
• smokestack chasing
• financial incentives incentives (or bribery
  stealing existing development from somewhere
  else)

• Now
• Retention and expansion
• New entrepreneurs
• Collaboration
• New Economy
• Workforce issues
• Housing development
• Smart Growth
• Market your strengths
• Address deficiencies
• Target appropriate sectors

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Issues Considerations

• Energy availability
• Technology and telecommunications
• Business incubation
• Downtown and commercial revitalization

• Transportation options
• Infrastructure redevelopment
• Access to capital
• Professional development
• Workforce development

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Infrastructure Examples

• Transportation Infrastructure
• roads, freight rail, airports, parking, etc
• Communications Infrastructure
• telephone, cable, broadband Internet, wi-fi
• Utility Infrastructure
• water, sewer, etc
• Social Infrastructure
• schools, health care, local government, etc

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a closer look at Grant County
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Persons Per Square Mile
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Total Housing Units
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Average Travel Time to Work
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local labor force working within county of
residence
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Educational Attainment
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Per Capita Income (2005)
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Who are the two largest employers in Grant
County?
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The two largest employersin Grant County

• University of Wisconsin Platteville
• Grant County Government

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Labor Force Statistics2007 Average
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Employment by Industry ()
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Top five industries in Grant County

• Education, health, social services (21.3)
• Manufacturing (17.3)
• Retail trade (13.9)
• Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and
  mining (10.1)
• Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodations,
  and food service (8)

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Agricultural Statistics
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Tourism Spending
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What type of development wouldyour community
like to see?

• Commercial
• Industrial
• Agricultural
• Residential
• Recreational
• NA may be an appropriate response too

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Where should development occur?

• Is there a specific location in your community?
• Is there a location thats better suited in a
  neighboring community?

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Thank You!

• Susan Sloper
• SWWRPC
• 608-342-6065
• slopers_at_uwplatt.edu