Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County

1. Fairfax County
Strategic Plan to Facilitate the
Economic Success of Fairfax County
September 16, 2014
success@fairfaxcounty.gov
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Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
EAC Economic Strategic Plan 2011
1. Attracting and Retaining
Business
2. Skilled and Competitive
Workforce
3. Financial Decisions
4. Infrastructure
5. Regulatory Processes
6. Land Use Policies
7. Redevelopment
8. Availability and
Affordability of Housing
9. Balance between Jobs and
Housing Growth
10. Retail Sector
11. Industrial Uses
12. Dulles International
Airport
13. Value of Arts
14. Tourism
15. Baby Boomers
http://e-ffordable.org/documents/03-25-11/EAC%20Report%20-%202011.pdf
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3. Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
Review of Goals for the 2014 Update
• Revise 2011 Plan and create actionable steps
• Refine and affirm County’s vision and goals for
economic success
• Catalog current County initiatives intended to
further economic success goals
• Develop near term action plan that builds on
initiatives and identifies “gaps” that require
additional actions and clarifies leadership, roles
and responsibilities to sustain economic success
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4. Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
Overview
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Overarching Vision
• Board of Supervisors Priorities
• County Vision
• People, Places, Employment, Governance
Linking each goal area to Economic Success with
Catalog of Current Initiatives and a 3-5 Year Action Plan
Measurable Actions
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5. Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
Four Themes
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In order to further implement the Plan’s vision of an
economically strong and sustainable Fairfax, we will focus on
four fundamentals:
Each of the four areas contains goals and a vision of what we
aspire to.
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Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
Four Themes
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We will be a magnet for the best prepared
and best educated workforce in the country.
We will support and adopt policies that
support residents and employees of a
variety of ages, abilities, and experiences.
Our system of education will be of the
highest quality from pre-school and
secondary through post-secondary and
continuing learning programs in order to
attract and serve all people and businesses
and to provide for a skilled workforce and
opportunities at all levels. We will have a
variety of housing opportunities available
to those seeking to live in the County and
will encourage people to both live and work
here. We will embrace the diversity of the
County’s populations, neighborhoods and
business communities. We will have a full
spectrum of cultural, art and institutional
opportunities that support a diverse
community and foster social interaction.
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Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
Four Themes
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We will focus on building sustainable, healthy
places and creating destinations of choice. We
will focus our growth in activity centers that
facilitate efficient delivery of services and
protect existing residential neighborhoods.
We will implement land use policies that foster
revitalization and redevelopment of key areas
of the county and support the attraction and
growth of businesses. We will protect the
environment and enhance public health by
preserving air and water quality, minimizing
energy use, and having a broad range of open
space and recreational amenities to support
the needs of our residents and employees. We
will have high quality, well maintained
infrastructure and multi-modal transportation
systems to support the demands of present
and future growth and to provide a healthy
living environment. We will provide a full
spectrum of art, cultural, and institutional uses
and a built environment that is a national
model reflecting the highest quality of
architecture, landscape architecture, and
urban design – creating places where people
want to be.
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Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
Four Themes
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We will maintain and continue to pursue a
prosperous economic climate with
increasingly varied and innovative
employment opportunities. To achieve this,
we will continuously develop and pursue a
broad range of actions aimed at enhancing
our long-term competitive position in the
region, nationally and internationally. Our
vision includes establishing an environment
conducive to the retention and expansion of
existing employers; attraction of new
employers; support of new and emerging
industries and technologies, including the
incubation and growth of new businesses.

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Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
Four Themes
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We will foster a vibrant, inclusive culture of
civic engagement and collaboration. We
will have policies and processes that
anticipate and accommodate market
conditions, future innovations, changing
demographics, and new opportunities and
technologies. We will provide a responsive
and collaborative development review
process, including a regulatory framework
that encourages business development,
retention and expansion and that
accommodates economic development
opportunities. We will have a safe
environment which includes state-of-the-art
public safety services including police, fire
protection, emergency medical services,
and health facilities. We will nurture
strong inter-governmental relationships
among local, regional, state, and federal
governments as well as other local
agencies, authorities and non-government/
non-profit organizations.
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• Initial stakeholder outreach sessions held June 25 and 26
with more than 60 representatives from various sectors.
• Series of rankings and open ended questions…
– What challenges or barriers do you face?
– Feedback on goals of each thematic area
(People, Places, Employment, Governance)
– What goals are we missing?
– What emerging sectors and market trends should we be monitoring?
– We will have achieved economic success in Fairfax County when...
• Comments categorized in order to determine community
priorities.
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Outreach

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Gap Analysis and Stakeholder Priorities
Top Fifteen Priorities from the
Stakeholder Sessions to Date
 Placemaking/Redevelopment
 Transportation
 Affordable Housing
 Workforce Development
 Development Process Improvements
 Demographic Changes
(Respond to aging population, social equity, diversity, Millennials)
 Innovation Support and Small Business Support
 Healthy Communities
(Support policies to create a healthier population/community)
 Communication
(Encourage more community engagement and participation)
 Diversify the Economy
 Regulatory Reform
(Review current regulations, such as the Zoning Ordinance)
 Changing Workplace
 Environment
 Infrastructure
 Regional Focus
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Action Plan Identification
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EAC-IC Gaps/Opportunities Workshop
• Conducted small group analysis of gaps and
opportunities and then reported out to full
group.
• Considerable synergy was created around
several action items which will be included in
the 3-5 year plan.
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• A series of evening outreach sessions have been scheduled
throughout the County and are open to the public.
– October 20th, Lorton Workhouse
– October 28th, Luther Jackson Middle School
– October 29th, Frying Pan Park
• Continuing dialogue with other key stakeholders
– Planning Commission
– Small Business Commission
– Land Development Industry
– Chambers of Commerce CEOs
• We will share proposed actions and identify what is missing.
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Upcoming Outreach

15. Strategic Plan to Facilitate the Economic Success of Fairfax County
Next Steps
• Using stakeholder comments, conduct gap analysis
with Deputy County Executives’ Leadership Teams to
create specific action items for 3-5 year plan.
• Work with EAC-IC to prioritize action items.
• Prepare for fall stakeholder outreach sessions.
• Revised Economic Success Plan will be delivered to the
Board for consideration in early 2015.
• Provide updates on www.fairfaxcounty.gov/success.
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