Email this pageAre you ready? Take the Test!
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Investors want to talk to municipal representatives who are knowledgeable, accessible and authorized to make decisions. Investment readiness means capitalizing on your community's resources – its land, people, unique characteristics and planning system - and communicating their strengths effectively. Are you ready?Understanding these resources and working to ensure they are well known and valued ensures they're put to the best use. To take full advantage of existing resources, a municipality needs to evaluate its potential and make decisions about its future development. The questionnaire on the following pages will assist your municipality in determining its level of investment readiness. Remember to look beyond municipal boundaries to the market area of an employer.Take the Test!The following questionnaire is designed for municipal officials and staff as a tool to quickly and easily determine your community's investment readiness. It deals with key municipal contacts for information, land use planning, industrial land inventory data, marketing, and other local resources that can be tapped. Questions are divided into three sections: people, resources, and communication.There are three steps:
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The above document is available in Acrobat (*.pdf) format. If you do not have the Acrobat reader you can obtain it free of charge from Adobe at www.adobe.com For more InformationAlso available through MAH Municipal Services Offices is the economic readiness workshop kit. The kit elaborates on material contained in this booklet, providing more detailed information on:
Please contact the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to obtain more information on arranging a full-day workshop or to discuss issues concerning economic readiness. | ||
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