Visioning

Participants were asked to identify elements that they would like to change, preserve, and create. These were recorded onto flip charts.

Change, Preserve & Create

• Address birth/death ratio
• Affordable housing
• Aid development of small business
• Better jobs with benefits
• Bicycle/walking trails
• Build on human capital of retirement population
• C - affordable housing
• C - Balance between beauty and business
• C - Good jobs in the area
• C - Industries that add value to the environment
• C - lower crime
• C - Plan to preserve natural resources
• C - Services for the elderly
• C - Use historical sites
• C - Volunteer work opportunities
• Ch - Increase communication and single point of contact for economic development, training employees and employers
• Ch - Senior friendly
• Change - have smoking bans
• Change - more consistent planning throughout county
• Change - NIMBY mentality
• Change - streamline local government
• Change atmosphere of 3 sections of county
• Consistency in enforcement of zoning/etc. Regulations and ordinances
• Create - jobs, raising average income
• Create greater expansion postsecondary opportunities, LCOOCC
• Create model similar to Grameen bank for financial crisis
• Create more access for handicapped/elderly to local recreational resources
• Create opportunities for entrepreneurs
• Create political atmosphere to retain young people in county
• Create year-round jobs
• Create/support local businesses by providing peripheral services
• Development area for second homes - plan for it environmentally and economically
• Diversify economic base
• Do something to help seniors become more productive to/in the area, study what they need
• Ease distance between have's and have nots
• Eat more healthy way
• Educate workforce/train attitude of workforce
• Education to 4 yr college in area.
• Encourage companies to become employee owned
• Establish business incubators
• Expand parks and recreation
• Greenspace, access to natural resources
• Health care and retirement benefits of employee
• Improve adult education
• Improve communications infrastructure, e.g. Broadband
• Keep youth in area
• Library
• Make a plan for industry - we want to preserve environment of area
• Make whole county more welcoming feel for tourism
• Market area as retirement community
• Mentoring programs linking skilled people in area with those wanting to develop skills
• Natural rustic look places - don't develop
• Nursing home campus (lake environment)
• P - Balance of diversity between communities
• P - Natural Resources
• P - Peace and Quiet
• P - Recreational Infrastructure
• Pay scales - increase wages
• Pr - Wildlife
• Preserve fine restaurants, festivals, etc. - quality of life
• Preserve lake environment
• Preserve northwoods/small town atmosphere and lakes
• Preserve positive spirit
• Recreation opportunities (preserve, change, create)
• Resort Industry
• Retain residents
• Reverse loss of agriculture
• Rural atmosphere
• Sustainable/non-polluting business diversification
• Transportation solutions
• Upgrade recreational offerings
• Wages match housing market