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Estacada EDC frames strategic plan around industrial park recruitment, housing and permitting clarity
Summary
At a regular meeting, the Estacada Economic Development Committee discussed a strategic plan prioritizing industrial park recruitment, aligning workforce housing with expected wages, clarifying permitting conflicts (including fire-code authority), and assessing water and wastewater capacity.
Estacada’s Economic Development Committee spent the bulk of its meeting discussing a draft strategic plan that centers on recruiting employers to the city’s industrial park, aligning housing supply with likely wages, and resolving recurring permitting conflicts between local staff and fire authorities.
Committee members and city staff said the group will produce measurable targets for 1-, 5- and 10-year timeframes and recommend concrete first-year actions for council review. The work is intended to guide recruitment of “living-wage” jobs, speed permitting for new businesses and clarify infrastructure capacity limits.
Members described an inventory exercise of industrial parcels to separate "ready-to-build" sites from long-term opportunities and suggested using wage slices to estimate what kinds of housing would be affordable to likely employees. Committee member Eric Sale…
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