Program and Project Selection Many of the Priority Sites and Priority room for annual updates, tracking Projects/Partnerships that appear below performance measures, and creating direct represent long-held strategic goals. They links to our new EDD web page. In practice, have appeared – in some shape or form – in this will mean that, as we achieve goals and numerous planning efforts that came before new ideas emerge, we will add and subtract this document. These include: prior regional from the following priorities to ensure that Comprehensive Economic Development this CEDS, its subsequent updates, and Strategies; local, regional, and state all its future iterations are as current and Priority Development Area plans and other nimble as possible. priority investment areas, such as District Improvement Financing (DIF) and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) designations; and local master plans, economic development plans, Chapter 43D designations, and other incentive and permitting programs. Additionally, these key sites and initiatives are the subject of regular public presentations to and discussions with the Regional Economic Development Strategy Committee (RESC); they are discussed during regular project scoping and project development meetings with potential partners in the public and private sectors; and – most importantly – they are frequent topics at working sessions between SRPEDD’s senior staff and our colleagues at the U.S. Economic Development Administration. Moving forward, it is important to note that SRPEDD will also respond to new U.S. EDA recommendations that CEDS documents should be flexible and responsive to changing economic conditions by making
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