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Brigham City Economic Development
Strategic Plan
Executive
Summary
Adopted Brigham City Council May
31, 2001
SECTION 2: VISION STATEMENT
Brigham City envisions becoming a community that preserves a small-town atmosphere of tree-lined streets surrounding homes, parks, and Main Street with its specialty businesses, crafts, arts, and cultural life, while accommodating growth in the new economy and the new century. It will solve the challenges of its geographic setting - isolation and limited land availability - while building on its advantages - easy access to the Salt Lake City and Ogden metropolitan areas, history, natural beauty, and a clean environment.
Brigham City, the County Seat, reflecting the County's changing pattern from trails, rails, and the new technologies of outer space, will improve its already considerable quality of life, becoming the location of choice for knowledge workers seeking a place to live and do business in a desirable setting, and providing the same opportunity for our children if they choose to stay. Brigham City will become a regional center for arts and culture, capitalizing on the history, quality, and potential of its downtown business district, parks, and tourism destinations. It will recruit businesses and entrepreneurs to provide the amenities its residents now seek in other markets. And it will ensure the safety and security of its residents through continuing commitments to its public safety services.
Brigham City will insure that its citizens have the services and infrastructure they need to maintain their quality of life and do business in the new economy. This will include state-of-the-art, redundant telecommunications infrastructure. It will include basic infrastructure - clean water, wastewater treatment, and reliable electricity - as well as safe, efficient highways, freeways, rail, mass transit, and air transportation connecting Brigham City to the region, the nation, and the world. It will include quality housing at all income levels.
Brigham City will have a reputation as a desirable place to start and grow a business. This will be accomplished by having high but realistic standards, clearly articulating those standards, and making the development or licensing approval process as simple and user-friendly as possible.