Economic Growth

Although citizens continue to flock to Collin County, businesses steadfastly refuse to bring more major headquarters here. We can encourage business growth in the region while maintaining our green spaces, by working together among the cities of Collin County. We can join the individual Master Plans that our cities have to create a development plan for our entire county. Only then will our area experience the growth it needs and still be able to maintain a clean and diverse community.

Economic Development translates simply to more better paying jobs within Collin County. It’s key to keeping county citizens from spending money in Dallas or Denton. We need to encourage growth by planning together as a region. Technology corridors that span multiple cities have to be planned as a group, not allowed to haphazardly fall together.
Only when we show that we can effectively plan for the future of our county as a whole will businesses begin to believe in the future of Collin County as much as we do.

I would increase the partnerships that the county has with municipal, state, and federal entities. We have been told by the state legislature that TxDOT is broke. Yet over half of the gas tax we pay in Texas isn’t going to its intended recipient – TxDOT.

We have to go to Austin as a whole and bring back transportation funds where they belong. Only then will we begin to see a change in the ever-tightening transportation funding cycle.