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Implementation Action |
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GOAL EP-1: Job Creation and Retention: Foster a dynamic local economy that provides and creates employment opportunities for all residents in the City. |
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1.1 |
Economic Development Strategic Plan. Pursue funding and update the City’s Economic Development Strategic Plan every three years to report on economic trends, describe targeted industry clusters, identify economic issues, inform infrastructure and land use priorities, develop strategies for addressing near- to mid-term economic issues, and identify new initiatives in the private sector, within the context of long-term goals. |
CDA 2023 |
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1.2 |
Fiscal impacts of land use changes. Document the potential economic and fiscal impacts associated with significant land use plan amendments involving land use or intensity revisions. |
CDA |
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1.3 |
Economic indicators. Explore the use of key economic indicators to identify the need for new strategies and establish priorities for public investment. This data will be used in the development of the City’s Economic Development Strategy Plan and also updated bi-annually on the City’s economic development website. |
CDA |
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1.4 |
Integrity of industrial areas. Review the permitted uses in industrial zones and consider removing uses that do not need to be in an industrial zone; identify areas where new warehousing development would not be consistent with the desire to maintain manufacturing and other industrial uses that have higher employment per acre than warehousing. |
CDA |
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1.5 |
Broker outreach. Conduct outreach meetings with commercial and industrial real estate brokers to discuss the types of businesses considering a Santa Ana business location; identify challenges that discourage business from locating in the city; implement a plan to address such challenges. |
CDA |
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1.6 |
Business development targets. Prepare and regularly update a business development target list that identifies the types of businesses that are most likely to be interested in a Santa Ana business location, the types of businesses most likely to employ city residents, types of businesses that broaden the local economy, and the types of businesses expected to generate higher net revenues for the City or to create shared revenue opportunities; target the City’s business attraction efforts on these types of businesses. |
CDA |
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