Oro Valley, with its talented and well-educated workforce, attracts and supports a diverse blend of businesses. This dynamic environment fosters job creation and enhances the local economy. Our community is thriving in key sectors such as healthcare, bioscience, and high-tech industries. Additionally, tourism, retail, education, and service industries play a significant role in our economic landscape.

Our priorities that shaped this part of the Plan include:

• Having options to live, work, and play. Residents emphasized wanting more restaurants, entertainment, and places to gather
• Attracting and retaining a healthy workforce and diverse industries
• Supporting entrepreneurs and local or small businesses

The guiding principle provides the foundation for building goals, policies, and action. It represents the desires of our community.

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Goal U: Employers and Workforce.		Goal V: Business Attraction and Retention.
Foster a robust local economy and job market that provides quality employment, builds on Oro Valley's assets, and encourages responsible growth and investment.		Encourage a wide range of services, entertainment, shopping, and dining options.
Goal W: Tourism.
Establish Oro Valley as a tourist destination.

Relationship to Other Goals in the Plan

The topics in this chapter are interrelated with other aspects of the Plan, in the same way they are connected in our lives. The following table depicts the overlap between this chapter's goals (and associated policies and actions) and other chapters.

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