Principles for Local Land Use and Economic Development
- Commit to just, equitable, and sustainable development that prioritizes the needs of communities of color and other historically marginalized and disenfranchised people
- Mitigate the climate emergency
- Protect the Earth by exceeding the state environmental protections regarding water, air, and soil quality and maintaining green spaces
- Oppose recruitment and investment in war or fossil fuel corporations
- Invest public money equitably in local and regional businesses, not multi-national corporations
- Generate jobs with a living wage that guarantee workers’ right to organize
- Focus on essential community needs, such as deeply affordable housing, health care, education, social services, infrastructure, renewable energy
- Hold new industries accountable to the community by requiring contributions to essential community needs in exchange for tax incentives
- Make no secret deals – Engage the public in meaningful and transparent decision making from the very beginning of the economic development process
