Broadband and Beyond:
​Recalibrating Small Town Economic Development 
Taylor Stuckert, Executive Director, Clinton County (OH) Regional Planning Commission
​Planners and economic development professionals giving renewed attention to initiatives such as Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) and comprehensive planning processes need to ensure that they are tending to community-based development strategies and are focusing on areas such as affordable housing, public health, education, transportation, broadband access, issues of equity and inclusion, natural resource protection, amenity development, and general preservation of community assets. 

This issue brief describes why rural development professionals will need to take time to gain perspective from past lessons and future goals to formulate strategies that go beyond specific issues, such as broadband expansion, to successfully confront today’s challenges and improve community sustainability and resiliency.