Community Development Agency
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Open for Business Working Group
The Open for Business Working Group met between July 14 and October 6, 2015 to recommend strategies to make urban unincorporated Alameda County more business-friendly and to remove barriers to economic growth. The Working Group grew out of Supervisor Nate Miley's Eden Area Livability Initiative and builds on the East Bay Economic Development Alliance's "Open for Business" Pledge that Alameda County officially endorsed.
The Working Group was made up of stakeholders and County departments involved in commercial permitting and entitlements, including Planning, Fire, Building, Environmental Health and Public Works/Engineering. The Community Development Agency's (CDA) Economic & Civic Development Department (ECD) facilitated the Working Group's deliberations and process. The goal of the Working Group was to map the issues, identify "fixable" problems, recommend solutions, change perceptions, replace myths with factual information, and to open up lines of communication between agencies, County departments and the County's "customers."
The Working Group developed twelve Recommended Strategies that identified the specific issue or challenge hindering businesses and developers in the unincorporated area, included a recommended solutions, the implementing steps, and the responsible County department or agency.