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County planning director urges passage of 'St. Louis County 2050'; council members applaud but warn funding is limited
Summary
Jacob Trimble, the county’s planning director, urged the council to approve St. Louis County 2050, describing it as a 25-year comprehensive plan to address five major county challenges. Council members praised the plan’s work but several cautioned that the county currently lacks funding to implement many of its roughly 200 action items.
Jacob Trimble, director of the Department of Planning, addressed the St. Louis County Council during the public forum on Sept. 2 to urge an affirmative vote on St. Louis County 2050, calling it a decades-in-the-making, award-winning, 25-year comprehensive plan aimed at addressing population stagnation, job-skill mismatches, infrastructure fiscal challenges, resilience and housing affordability.
"St. Louis County 2050 is the vehicle to drive that change over the next 25 years to…
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