"Economic development' can be distilled down to a single: Warehouses. People can't live in warehouses, but the it appears that the 'planners' don't give a darn. There's money to be made, and if Thurston county is like King county, the warehousers/developers et al won't have to pay property taxes.
If the EDC were truly interested in economic development, it would first find all the empty brick and mortar stores and fill those with businesses that bring in money. There are spots in Thurston countyi where a developer destroyed a forest in order to put in a strip mall and most of the stores they built are still empty.
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