Economic Resilence

Strategic Priority: Economic Resilience

Goal: Facilitate the growth of a diversified local economy.

Local jobs and the opportunity to work close to home is a desirable aspect of any community. The County has seen successes in creating new businesses in the community, both by facilitating business expansions and by directly delivering serviced lands to prospective business owners. New and expanding businesses fuel job creation both directly by the new business, and indirectly as other businesses expand to provide services to these new businesses. The agricultural sector employs a significant number of local residents and new niche agribusinesses are allowing small farms to prosper. Also, the municipality gains through tax revenues and development charges when new businesses expand.

Objective 1: Undertake a series of actions to create a more diverse economy, drive new investment, build successful downtown cores, and increase communication and engagement to the business community.

Objective 2: Ensure a minimum of 50 acres of Shovel Ready Employment Land is available at any given time.

Objective 3: Through the implementation of the Economic Development Strategy and Action Plan, create an environment where people can both live and work in the community.