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Projects the EDC has completed
Technology Corridor
The Technology Corridor Partnership combines public and private sector leadership, expertise, and network to ensure successful implementation of a strategic marketing plan designed to grow living wage jobs in key Snohomish County industry sectors.
Blueprint 2010
To effectively create and foster a healthy and vital economy in Snohomish County, a partnership is working to develop a single collaborative, comprehensive approach that supports a unified system of workforce development, education, and economic development. This comprehensive approach is designed to retain and attract jobs in eight key industry clusters targeted for economic development that will strengthen Snohomish County’s local economy through the efficient and cost-effective use of scarce federal, state, and local resources.
Urban Centers Development
Snohomish County is filled with great places getting even better. The EDC’s Centers Project is helping local governments and private developers join forces to create or renovate mixed-use centers that put employers at the heart of communities, near high-quality residences, commercial areas and transit nodes. The EDC fosters public-private development partnerships; promotes collaborative master plan and development initiatives among adjacent landowners; and introduces topnotch mixed use developers and designers to local opportunities.
Rural Program- Evergreen Crescent Partnership
The EDC of Snohomish County has begun a very proactive rural economic and community development program. A significant component of this proactive approach to strengthening rural communities, the Evergreen Crescent Partnership was formed. This partnership consists of the Economic Development Council, Snohomish County Planning & Development Services, Central Puget Sound Economic Development District, and the communities of Granite Falls, Lake Stevens, Snohomish, Monroe and Sultan. This main focus of the partnership is to assess and to create economic diversification strategies that will have a positive impact upon the partner communities.
In concert with the strategic thinking is to raise the level of activity within the community to pursue strategies that link together resources, agencies and investment opportunities to maintain the high level of quality of life found in the partner communities. Central to this is the creation of the position of the Rural Community Development Specialist, through a grant received by the EDC from the USDA Forest Service. This is a unique rural community development program intended to bring the resources of the Economic Development Council directly into the rural communities of Snohomish County.
Model Permit Report
The Snohomish County Economic Development Council (EDC) recognizes that an efficient permit process is one of the best economic development tools at a local government’s disposal simply because, at some point, most businesses enter into the land use permit process. To encourage a healthier business climate in Snohomish County, the EDC has begun a multi-phased, multiyear initiative that recommends methods to streamline the land use permit process. Click here for the complete report Model Permit Report
This EDC initiative responds, in large measure, to recommendations of the Washington Competitiveness Council. Specifically, the Committee’s work addresses the Council’s recommendations relating to “Regulations and Permitting:”
- Reducing unnecessary delays
- Creating certainty and predictability
- Creating a positive regulatory culture with a bias toward making decisions
Model Permit Report: MPS Report
The Washington Competitiveness Council recommendations addressed permit process consolidation and coordination, as well as full implementation of those elements of the Growth Management Act (GMA) that provide efficient land use permit processing. The EDC has adopted the Council’s recommendations and, by this initiative, taken a significant step toward improving land use permitting locally.
