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OUR LONG TERM PURPOSE (cont.) We are able to show a united community effort to bring in well paying and socially beneficial large and medium industry while supporting small businesses. New technology and/or large healthcare facilities want to locate here and we have sites for them. This creates jobs and helps transform our community to one with a robust economy and salary averages above national average. Economic Development adds to the aesthetic values of community. We will have an ample amount of land ready for development when a job/income producing firm comes to town with an interest in building a facility here. We re-shape parcels of land and economic policy to make available sites of various sizes shovel ready so that companies vie for a location in Eugene and we have the pick of the litter of business that stay in Eugene forever. We move ahead slowly, with flexibility and open up the UGB only if needs require it. That we end up with sufficient areas of land that are suitably located and can accommodate large, medium and small industry that will provide living wages for families. We identify a “menu” of industrial sites targeting specific industry and add land to the UGB to accommodate it. We expand the UGB within a four year period. We take a “big picture” look at our options and agree on an approach to designating industrial land that makes Eugene competitive in attracting new industry while protecting our valued resources and neighborhoods. There are minimal impacts of industrial uses on neighborhoods. We have clean industries that are good neighbors. We build smaller homes for encouraging more for less on the housing lands and keeping them off and away from industrial lands. Our Class 1 farmland is protected. Recruitment of business minimizes environmental impacts in the long run. Industry that does come here is compatible to Eugene and does not degrade our lifestyle. Seriously, average wages go up and we have a balanced mix of industry that is compatible and sustainable with our current and future vision. That we agree to long term employment and development objectives that help us agree on land use and help us stick to those agreements long term. We attract new business and support existing businesses while responsibly using our natural resources. Everyone will have meaningful work near to where they live and will earn enough to meet basic needs while preserving invaluable resource lands to produce their food, clothing and shelter. Perhaps their work is on those rescued lands providing their own needs! Eugene offers good living wage jobs to a wide spectrum of workers with varied skills. We provide a full portfolio of job opportunities that allow community members to participate in the job market from entry level through a career. Eugene would see the value in higher wage manufacturing jobs, especially for those people without a college degree, and we make sure we had the right mix of available lands to entice businesses to locate to Eugene. As a result Eugene is a vibrant thriving community with low unemployment and ample competitive wages. We are above the national average in median income. We have a diverse, stable economy. Jobs are more inclusive, including those people living below the poverty level and/or on food stamps in the process toward a better future. We all say “remember when there was a United Way?” Community Resource Group October 12, 2010