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DeSoto development staff unveils project dashboard and RFP plan; zoning flagged as the chief barrier
Summary
Economic development staff demonstrated a new project-tracking dashboard and said a limited RFP for Hampton Road/BeltLine parcels will go out later this year. Board members repeatedly identified lack of zoning and entitlement delays as the principal obstacle to converting interest into built projects.
Matt Carlson, director of economic development for the corporation and city, presented a new project-tracking dashboard the department says will centralize opportunity lists, project status and follow-up tasks.
“...this dashboard that you’re looking at now is something I’ve been working on so that we can display our activity externally and show you all,” Carlson said during the presentation. The dashboard lists developable corridors and nodes, stamps projects by status (concept, planning, entitlement,…
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