Fill existing buildings and commercial spaces first..

Enterprise Zones should be part of the solution for California. This blog has suggested that all homes in GT be issued a Home Business License and have the citizens be encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to work from their homes. A GT Enterprise Support Group can aid in educating Home Business Operators to keep their business records appropriately and insure that taxes are collected and paid in a proper way.

Enterprise Zones often have more flexible zoning and code regulations for land use. It allows for piece meal development and encourages inovation not duplication. What we see in GT are plans for development that focus on Retail, and basically more of the same type of business that are currently closing or struggling to exist in this economy.

Enterprise Zones do not feed money directly into the City's Budget the way the RDA had in the past. This will force an adjustment in thinking on what is good for a community. It will bring the focus on the job for the citizen, not the percent of cost the city can recover or claim to pay city employees.

The reality is we have to deal with a new way of doing business and governance.