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• Build up and sustain ports and other infrastructure to support trade, <br />logistics, and freight mobility <br />• Sustain and grow commercial air travel connections domestically and <br />globally <br />Quality of Life <br />• Focus new growth in urban areas, regional centers, and cities <br />• Ensure a diversity of housing stock that is affordable and connected to <br />jobs <br />• Improve the region's transportation system <br />• Preserve, enhance and improve the region's environmentally critical <br />lands <br />• Ensure the region is a healthy place to live, work, and play for all <br />residents <br />• Protect the global environment <br />• Build resiliency into, and increase access to, the region's arts, culture, <br />and tourism industries <br />New and Expanded Focus Areas <br />• Equity — Forward Together Framework and Regional Equity Strategy <br />• Health — Address health inequities, respond to COVID-19 impacts. <br />• Broadband — Leverage federal funding opportunities and growth <br />broadband capacity. <br />• Housing — PSRC Regional Housing Strategy <br />• Workforce - Develop strategies and analysis around the region's <br />workforce development systems to strengthen economic recovery, <br />support equity, build resiliency, and develop the region's talent <br />pipeline. Expand childcare capacity. <br />• Local Planning — Technical Assistance to jurisdictions on economic <br />development elements, tracking job distribution, work from home <br />impacts, and women in the workforce. <br />• Regional Competitiveness — Update Industrial Lands Analysis, <br />examine tax increment financing best practices, provide technical <br />assistance to local jurisdictions in applying for federal recovery <br />funding, and support new industry growth opportunities (Commerce's <br />ICAP) <br />• Business Recovery <br />• Industry Resilience <br />Key Regional Export Industries and 2022 Focus <br />• Aerospace & Aviation — Washington Space Economy Report and <br />Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission, expand production of <br />sustainable aviation fuels. <br />• Information and Communication Technology — Analyze impact of <br />expertise in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cybersecurity <br />TUKWILA EDS <br />DISCUSSION DRAFT PAGE 2 <br />DRAFT VISION AND GOALS NOVEMBER 28, 2022 <br />8 <br />