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citizens. These new business owners have identified several reasons for locating <br />commercial businesses into the City including: <br />• A rapidly growing population with attractive demographics <br />• Improvements to the CSAH 8 corridor <br />• High quality, well planned, and attractive development <br />• Lack of other similar businesses within close proximity <br />• Available land <br />Strategy: The City should continue to identify strengths and opportunities. In addition, <br />the City should identify barriers to new business development and seek ways to eliminate <br />or minimize those barriers. The City should continue this effort by asking existing <br />business owners though an outreach survey. <br />Goal: Identify target business market. Based on the strengths and weaknesses <br />identified for the City, the target business market should be identified. <br />Strategies: Establish criteria for desirable businesses, including type of business, size of <br />business, quality of business, type of jobs, types of service. Separate parameters may be <br />established for each market sector including office, retail, industrial and medical. The <br />EDA discourages the development of large, "big box," style retailers, but has encouraged <br />the development of smaller neighborhood style shopping centers. <br />Goal: Guide land use for business and identify locations within the City for each <br />target business market. <br />Strategy: The Land Use Plan Chapter identifies locations for future industrial, retail, and <br />office development. The land use plan should be used to guide new businesses to <br />suitable land for new business development. Land is identified within the land use plan <br />where businesses are likely to succeed with good access to transportation, utilities, and <br />the workforce. The City's website is intended to become a resource for potential <br />business owners who may wish to locate on developed property. On the website, <br />available commercial land in the City may be listed, and through the listings, property <br />owners may be contacted about available space for sale or lease. <br />Strategy: Provide areas for office and medical development that are distinct from retail <br />areas. Due to the City's support of life -cycle housing, additional housing options are <br />being provided for the senior population, which in turn is creating a demand for <br />additional medical development. Identifying specific areas for medical and office <br />development will also preserve prime retail space along high traffic corridors for retail <br />development. <br />Goal: Market the City <br />Strategy: The City should market its strengths and opportunities to desirable businesses. <br />Simply making the information available to the business community is the first step. The <br />
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