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Greater IC is focused on building productive public-private partnerships, and a key stakeholder in all our work are our local municipalities – Iowa City, Coralville, and North Liberty. As such, we are creating advocacy statements for each city to focus on specific, actionable ideas that align with our urban planning principles and address challenges faced by the business community. These advocacy statements are:

1. Hyperlocal. Each municipality has specific opportunities as well as challenges, and we want our advocacy to be specific to each. However, our recommendations will all be informed by the same planning principles.
2. Evolving. We will update these statements to reflect current issues. They are not a comprehensive list of our values, but rather specific goals we’d like to achieve in partnership with our cities.
3. Informed by the local business community. Each statement was created in partnership with business leaders from that specific community and reflects issues they deemed most important.

The intent of these statements is to be clear about our priorities and create opportunities for productive discussions. We will make progress toward our goals by convening groups and facilitating conversation.