Jefferson Davis Parish--Recovery Vision
Over the next 20 years, Jefferson Davis Parish will:
Maintain and enhance the current quality of life, with the following characteristics:
- Unique history (combined Midwestern and Cajun origins) and strong local culture
- Quality schools and top notch educational system
- Friendly, self-reliant, kind, and helpful people
- Quiet country living, with deeply rooted religious values
- Safe and secure neighborhoods
- Moderate cost of living for all
- Better preparedness for and response to disasters and emergency situations
- Wide range of incomes and professions within the community
- Enhanced and affordable health care system and care for the elderly
- Improved infrastructure that supports sustainable economic growth and preparedness for disasters
- Diversity
- Enhanced social services
- Clean water for recreational activities
Manage growth in a manner that:
- Offers ample quality employment opportunities and a wide range of housing opportunities for all, including the elderly and low income members of the community
- Makes the Parish an attractive home for new generations
- Increases security and sustainability by diversifying the economy
- Provides for the commercial needs of citizens and for quality public services
- Sustains agriculture and local products
Develop and implement a framework of preparedness by:
- Improving construction standards
- Maintaining adequately prepared emergency shelters and evacuation centers
- Ensuring that essential services and utilities, such as electric power, water, sewer and communications, are self-sufficient and reliable; and minimizing their vulnerabilities
- Improving communication and coordination between Parish government bodies and other organizations to improve disaster response and to provide opportunities for realizing an expanded vision
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