Strategic Plan For Auburn Includes Revitalized Attitudes, LB840, Festivals

NEBRASKA CITY – Auburn Development Council presented its strategic plan at Monday’s city council meeting to include retail space, a shovel ready industrial site, new housing and a younger workforce.

Leslie Clark and Kim Beger said the strategic plan includes expanding feelings of community well being.

 Clark: “You revitalize an area by revitalizing people and so part of it is just saying, ‘hey, we’ve got great things here.”

She said progress is being made and the development council hopes to change the narrative from negative to positive.

 

 

The plan also includes exploring passage of an LB840 fund for economic development.

Clark: “That would absolutely help local business. We could have helped a lot of local businesses through COVID here at the beginning, if we would have had something like that.

Beger: A lot of communities used LB840 funds to help small businesses during that time.”

Other tasks include an update for residential zoning, increased lodging taxes and new housing units.