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Industrial strategy prepared for Huron County
Goderich, Clinton and Exeter have strong
industrial bases and buoyant economies,
while Wing.m and Seaforth have declining
or stagnant economies.
That conclusion is included in an Indus-
trial development strategy or Huron
County which. has been prepared by the
third year class of the school of urban and
regional planning at the University of Wa-
terloo.
The strategy was presented to members
of Huron County Council during the regular
September session Thursday in the court
house at Goderich.
The document includes as opportunities
favoring industrial growth in Winghara: its
young population structure relative to the
other municipalities, its large percentage of
the labor force with post secondary school
education, abundance of municipally -owned
land, relatively inexpensive and already
serviced industrial land, adequate water
and sewage, .allowance for heavy industry in
its official plan, and a high female un-
employment rate indicating. "a readily
available local labor force".
Disadvantages listed include Wingham's
relatively high mill rate, its isolation from
large urban centres and its "small and nar-
row industrial base, largely dependent on
wood products.!,'
The main thrust of the strategy is aimed
at the need for -Huron County to shift its de-
velopment patterns more toward industrial
development rather than its traditional
agricultural trends.
Huron County has alWays been an
agriculturally based economy, the strategy
document says. The industrial sector, how-
ever, is not a significant component Of the
county's economy in that it is composed of
small to medium sized firms that are linked
to the agricultural service sector.
Rubber, plastics and printing industries
have shown slight growth, the document
state, while wood products, transportation
equipment and metal fabrication industries
have declined.
The strategy suggests that industrial
parks in the county have sufficient indus-
trial land to accommodate future growth. In
addition, there are sufficient industrial land
parcels available throughout the county, al-
though much of it is scattered .and frag-
mented.
The document says the ,county's future,
industrial strategy must aim at five essen-
tial fuections: diversification of the county's
economic base, retention of its firm agricul-
tural foundation for the future, maintaining
and expanding its existing industry, encour-
aging back and forth,"linkages" — particu-
larly within the agricultural sector — and
developing a proactive role for county
government and administration where the
county should act as a facilitator of Indus-
' trial development initiatives.
Recommendations for implementing the
industrial strategy include:
--More efficient use of industrial parks
and lands by the county's planning and de-
velopment department through the -chang-
ing of official plans and bylaws in order to
Consolidate industrial land around towns, to
allow mixed-use industrial and commercial
zoning, and to prevent development of new
industrial parks until the existing ones are
filled,
, --Local municipalities should be en-
couraged to organize . industrial develop-
ment committees that can provide back-
ground information and professional
assistance.
--The planning and development depar-
tment should market }luron County for in-
dustrial development and expansion, using.
marketing techniques targeted primarily at
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local firms that have the potential to ex-
pand.
–The pursuit of funding programs from
senior levels of government by establishing
. and maintaining up-to-date files on such
programs and also providing assistance to
entrepeneurs and municipalities interested
in applying for funding.
--The establishment by county council of
an industrial development 'advisory com-
mittee, composed of members of the com-
munity. Such a committee's function will be
to advise on policy, facilitate community in-
put, open a network to local leadership and
expertise and to review the, industrial de-
velopment program.
--The planning and development depart-
ment should establish and maintain a data-
base of county surveys taken during census
years, to document the county's industries,
agriculture and labor force.
The 141 -page document goes on to outline
the step-by-step procedure for implement-
ing the indirstrial strategy,
Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle, in commenting
on the report at Thursday's meeting, urged
council members to take a serious look at its
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