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County Commissioner Liaison Tim Zorc <br /> 2013 Goals and Objectives for Economic Development Council to <br /> Consider adopting all or in part. <br /> 1. Foreign Trade Zone-FTZ <br /> The establishment of a County wide FTZ as a sub zone to Port Canaveral will allow current and <br /> future businesses to take advantage with little cost and paperwork to receive Federal Foreign <br /> Trade Zone status. <br /> Helene, Jason and myself recently attended a program at the Port of Canaveral and the process <br /> laid out by the consultant who the port is under contract with is fairly simple and reasonably <br /> proceed. The price and timeline mentioned by the consultant was $7,500 and approximately 6- <br /> months but we would need someone to complete a more in depth review of the process and cost. <br /> Once the FTZ is established for the County any business can apply and be approved in 30-days. <br /> Port Canaveral FTZ-136 would be our sponsoring agency. <br /> 2. Enterprise Zone <br /> The current Enterprise Zone is primarily located around the Vero Beach Airport and Gifford <br /> area. Originally established to match up with Census Data that indicated high areas of <br /> unemployment. We are currently using only a fraction of our allocated total allowable acreage. <br /> Can we use the Enterprise Boundary Amendment process to expand our Enterprise Zone to add <br /> acreage in areas like Fellsmere, Sebastian and the Industrial area around I-95 and Highway 60 <br /> and others? We need to see if we can also take advantage of the Boundary Amendment process <br /> to expand our Enterprise Zone. <br /> 3. Open for Business Initiative <br /> Over the past year our neighbors to the north and west collaborated together to form "Open for <br /> Business" The primary goal of these counties and the businesses located there is to streamline <br /> the permitting process so that anywhere in these counties you will have the same set of permit <br /> forms. To learn more and watch the web broadcast visit t.ywl.openforbusillessc0.conI <br /> 4. Building height Restrictions 1-95 and Highway 60 Industrial properties <br /> Most of you have toured the CVS facility out west on Highway 60. For that facility to be built <br /> originally the company needed to request a height increase to accommodate the German <br /> designed and manufactured high-tech automated storage system. <br /> 1 have heard discussions from some local realtors that the current height restrictions are not <br /> conducive for the newer automated storage systems now being proposed. During a recent tour of <br /> 1 <br /> ATTACHMENT 2 <br /> .2C, <br />