Strengthen Business and Community
- Strong business supports strong community, city and social services. We can enable and support business to grow in a measured way that fits the city and region. Business success contributes to the resources Victoria needs to fund community/additional services. We can:
- • Keep cap on tax increases to inflation + 1%
- • Streamline consistent planning processes
- • Put a modern value on industrial land and its use
- • Explore tax relief for businesses affected by city construction
- • Collect and share construction and investment data
- • Incent, create, more, diverse housing
- • Create a green/open public space policy
- • Enrich the heritage seismic upgrade program
- • Explore better ways to steward boulevard and public space
- • Include community ventures in new social enterprise programs