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Supervisors urge beefed-up economic development after VEDP relaunch; ask for stronger EDC focus and property marketing
Summary
Board members said the county needs a more active economic development strategy, encouraged use of the state VEDP Local and Regional Competitive Initiatives assessment, and asked staff to better market county-owned commercial properties and report tobacco-grant returns.
Supervisors urged a stepped-up push on economic development after staff described a statewide relaunch of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership's Local and Regional Competitive Initiatives assessment and recommended the county complete the assessment and use the results to guide strategy. A supervisor who attended a VEDP Teams briefing said the program will issue customized assessments to localities that will be compared to peers and produce data on planning, performance indicators and land…
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