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Grenada County Build Better Together 2040 Plan

Planning Framework

The Grenada County 2040 Plan effort built on essential direction already provided by the Greater
Grenada Partnership’s internal planning and priority setting, including its Big Idea statement:
To develop and implement creative community-based strategies to
enhance economic opportunity post COVID-19, build stronger
neighborhoods, and ensure a dynamic framework for equitable quality
growth and development.

The Partnership had also identified several pertinent methods and paths through which Success would be
achieved:
1. Policy and Government Collaboration

2. Community Mapping and Planning that addresses:
 Affordable Housing Development
 Equitable Educational Development
 Equitable Health Care Development
 Community Development Projects

 Infrastructure Development Projects
The Partnership’s framework for the Plan highlighted crucial areas where energy and investment would
be most needed. Throughout the Plan process, emphasis was placed on developing an actionable Plan
and preparing for prompt and effective implementation, in part, by building a constituency of support for
the emerging Plan.

What Grenada County Residents Had to Say

Community and leadership engagement activities during the comprehensive planning process included:

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