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Planning members debate prioritizing community engagement or economic development
Summary
At a Planning Commission discussion, members disagreed over whether to prioritize community engagement and community development or economic development, and directed that business retention and recruitment be listed as an actionable item.
Committee member (S2) pushed the group toward economic initiatives at the start of the meeting, stating simply, "We're doing economic development." Committee member (S1) responded that "community engagement and community development are the 3 under community," and the exchange set up competing emphases for future items and actions.
The members agreed to capture both strands as priorities and to list "retaining and strengthening existing business and recruiting new businesses" as an action item to be prioritized by staff. The discussion included procedural notes that items had been moved around on prior agendas and that the proposal should be returned for placement and further refinement.
