Issue Position: Economic Development

Issue Position

To ensure the vital economic develop this area has been craving, I would work to maintain that the local administration has every tool in the state arsenal to put economic development back on track in the area. Economic development entails a diversification business, as well as a range of housing options to sustain this new base. State level legislation, such as Chapter 40R, promotes diversification that is not only economical but environmental, the sort of legislation this area desperately needs. Tapping into this legislation, which contains provisions such as the "Density Bonus Payment", would bring needed state level revenue from a trust fund to promote this sort of development. Even more importantly, measures I would take such as these would bring in revenue and cause development without raising taxation which can be crippling when applied in the wrong places.

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