About the same time the board shifted responsibility for economic development from the County Administrative Office to the Planning and Building Department, creating a new department called Community Development Services. They are all pieces to the same puzzle, a puzzle that will begin to take shape in the coming weeks as the county presents a series of community workshops. We felt that it was important that we tie it in with spending the Headwaters money. Those two things are dovetailed together. Oftentimes they were seen as two disparate trains of thought.
Businesses go forward and land use planning is seen as separate.
We want to unite them. The General Plan principles and framework are going to be key in making sure that our policy decisions are guided by the community. These meetings will give us some important input about how we should judge our future growth. Five regional public workshops will begin next week. Each will have one or two county supervisors in attendance.