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Officials say lack of demand, infrastructure and funding limit housing and business growth
Summary
Panelists said limited demand, financing challenges and infrastructure gaps — water, sewer, and checkerboard land ownership — are the main barriers to new subdivisions and business investment despite county efforts and a state trails project meant to boost tourism.
County leaders and economic-development representatives told residents that housing and business growth in Sweetwater County is constrained more by demand, financing and infrastructure than by local zoning alone.
Commissioners and economic-development representatives reviewed recent work: a consultants' review of the county economic-development coalition, a planned trails system intended to bring modest tourism, and an…
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