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Strategy: Locate new commercial businesses where municipal utilities are available. <br />Urban services will be made available to the areas guided for business development in <br />accordance with the City's sewer and water plans. <br />Strategy: Ensure that telecommunications needs are met for new or existing businesses. <br />Evaluate how fiber optic lines or other telecommunication technology can be extended <br />and used in areas where businesses are located or plan to locate. <br />Goal: Facilitate the redevelopment of the downtown into a business center. <br />Strategies: Implement the downtown plan (Chapter x) and encourage redevelopment <br />where possible and where desirable. Employ the use of Tax Increment Financing as an <br />incentive. <br />Goal: Establish concentrations of high quality business development at the major <br />entrances to the City; CSAH 8 from the west, and TH 61 from the north and south. <br />Strategy: Implement the land use plan and preserve land at these key locations for non- <br />residential uses. <br />Goal: Promote quality business development <br />Strategy: Establish and implement development standards for new business <br />development, including architectural guidelines for retail development, standards <br />requiring quality building materials, and guidance for the preparation of site plans that <br />promote good land planning principles. Proper use of guidelines will ensure that the <br />desired businesses locate in the appropriate areas. <br />Goal: Retain existing businesses and encourage business expansions. <br />Strategies: Partner with the HBA to identify the needs of existing businesses. The EDA <br />and the HBA should strive to maintain a sound local business climate that encourages <br />businesses to remain. Establish and maintain mutually beneficial relationship between <br />business owners, members of the HBA and EDA by establishing open communication. <br />Regularly contact existing businesses and make site visits. Prepare and distribute specific <br />literature or surveys for existing businesses. Identify businesses that are considering <br />moving or expanding. Work to understand barriers that discourage business expansion, <br />and assist businesses in overcoming those barriers. Provide technical or financial <br />assistance, when warranted, in the interest of maintaining jobs and creating new jobs. <br />Identify successful business retention efforts within other communities. Interview any <br />businesses who decide to leave the City to understand their rationale for departing. <br />