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What Cities and Counties Can Do

Across the country, communities and local governments are leading efforts to ensure that economic development delivers real community benefits like good jobs for local residents, community stability and housing that people can afford, community amenities like grocery stores and health clinics and environmental mitigation. City and county officials and staff and their community partners have pioneered new tools for success. Come learn what strategies are most effective, what pitfalls to avoid and what are the latest success stories.

Register for Delivering Community Benefits through Economic Development

Advance registration is required

Presenters include:

• Mike O’Brien, City Councilmember, City of Seattle. Councilmember O’Brien has led a number of efforts to establish community benefits in new economic development amidst an exploding real estate market.
• Jahmese Myres, Planning Commissioner, City of Oakland and Campaign Director, EBASE. Commissioner Myres has both led coalition efforts to win community benefits and worked as a planning commissioner on land use measures that support community benefits.
• Ben Beach, Director of the Community Benefits Law Center and a national expert on community benefits

Who should attend?

• Elected and appointed officials 
• City and County staff who work on economic development, workforce development, and planning 
• City and County attorneys 
• Organizations that work with local government on community benefits 

Local Progress is a national municipal policy network. 
For more information please visit localprogress.org