{"id":28865,"date":"2016-12-09T02:28:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T02:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=28865"},"modified":"2016-12-13T00:17:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:17:52","slug":"behind-scenes-efforts-economic-development-projects-shown-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2016\/12\/behind-scenes-efforts-economic-development-projects-shown-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Behind The Scenes\u2019 Efforts In Economic Development Projects Shown At Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28839\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2016\/12\/behind-scenes-efforts-economic-development-projects-shown-summit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2016\/12\/development-summit-vc-191x300.png\" alt=\"Marty Vanags of the Saratoga Prosperity Partnership speaks at the recent summit. Courtesy Saratoga Prosperity Partnership\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2016\/12\/development-summit-vc-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2016\/12\/development-summit-vc.png 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marty Vanags of the Saratoga Prosperity Partnership speaks at the recent summit.<br \/>Courtesy Saratoga Prosperity Partnership<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By R.J. DeLuke\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFor us it\u2019s about bringing in a greater general awareness and knowledge about the mechanics of economic development,\u201d said Marty Vanags, president of Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership, about the Saratoga County Prosperity Summit held Nov. 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe more people that understand that, the more we can corral resources toward that effort when the time comes,\u201d he noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">About 100 people attended the summit, a mix of public and private sector representatives, supervisors and town council members, business leaders and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cWe got the crowd we wanted,\u201d said Vanags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Various panels presented information on different aspects of economic development. Jeff Finkle, president and CEO of the International Economic Development Council, the nonprofit membership organization serving economic developers,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>based in Washington D.C., was the keynote lunchtime speaker, talking about trends in economic development across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The focus and the purpose for doing this was to give people a good understanding of what\u2019s behind the headlines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Vanags said media stories about new, growing or expanding businesses aren\u2019t able to tell the whole, often complicated stories about everything that went on to bring about the success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on behind the scenes,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we\u2019re tried to do in this event, and what we\u2019ll do in the future, is kind of pull the curtain back a little bit and show people what is going on when we\u2019re doing economic development and what communities can do to better prepare themselves to accept new growth, new businesses and expansion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">One panel was comprised of Matt Jones of The Jones Firm, Tom Savino of CBRE-Albany and Rocky Ferraro with the Clifton Park Planning Board and Capital District Regional Planning Commission. They spoke about predictability and consistency in municipal planning and zoning regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Vanags said they explained \u201cwhat communities can do to make sure they are more predictable in terms of their approval process and be more consistent &#8230; having a consistent set of rules for getting things approved and doing it in a timely manner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He said the emphasis of the timeliness is for businesses, \u201cnot always timeliness seen through the lens of local government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Another panel was comprised of Mike Yevoli of Empire State Development; Brian McMahon of New York State Economic Development Council; Tom Kucharski of Invest Buffalo Niagara and Rob Camoin of Camoin Associates. The discussion point there was about the economic development landscape; what communities are doing well and what are some communities not doing as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCommunities that win in economic development are communities that work on a regional basis,unify and come together\u2014local government, private sector. Everybody works together to get the projects done,\u201d Vanags said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Uniformity of regulations, from municipality to municipality within Saratoga County, Vanags said, is not realistic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIn a perfect situation, that would be ideal. Every community is different. Their are reasons they want to have an independent voice and I think that\u2019s appropriate, as to how the community will grow. People move to the town of Day or the town of Edinburg because they want to be out there in the woods and not have a lot of retail and stores near them. That town\u2019s rules and regulations are going to be different from, say, Clifton Park which is very commercial oriented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe bottom line is every town is a little bit different. But if it can be consistent on some basic things across the board, that would probably be better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He said the summit was a success and the feedback was good. \u201cWe\u2019ll probably do this on an annual basis with similar type themes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAt the end of January there\u2019s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a planning conference held here that is very successful. Jason Kemper out of the Saratoga County Planning Department puts that on. We want to make sure we\u2019re not substituting for that. We\u2019re not competing with that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By R.J. DeLuke\u00a0 \u201cFor us it\u2019s about bringing in a greater general awareness and knowledge about the mechanics of economic development,\u201d said Marty Vanags, president of Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership, about the Saratoga County Prosperity Summit held Nov. 10 \u201cThe more people that understand that, the more we can corral resources toward that effort when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":28839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>\u2018Behind The Scenes\u2019 Efforts In Economic Development Projects Shown At Summit - Saratoga Business Journal<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2016\/12\/behind-scenes-efforts-economic-development-projects-shown-summit\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Behind The Scenes\u2019 Efforts In Economic Development Projects Shown At Summit - Saratoga Business Journal\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By R.J. 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