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San Benito County enterprise homeowners, native park representatives and ranchers named infrastructure, collaboration between the federal government and companies, inexpensive housing, legal responsibility and advertising as points impacting tourism within the county.

The 18 attendees additionally mentioned the attainable outcomes if these points have been or weren’t addressed as a part of BenitoLink’s Group Imaginative and prescient San Benito County listening periods to debate points surrounding tourism within the county. 

Tres Pinos Valley Farm proprietor Kerilyn LaFournaise sells eggs, fresh-cut flowers, espresso and honey at her farm stand on Southside Street. She stated she hopes to broaden the enterprise right into a cut-flower farm, however should insure the farm and meet the county’s legal responsibility requirements.

“We heard from different farmers who’ve small agritourism in our space about what the county requires for them to have their companies open, and me looking for data from the county is just not constant,” she stated on the Sept. 26 session. 

“There’s nothing on the web in any respect that will help you to determine, ‘The place does my enterprise land?’ and ‘What does it have to function?’”

Even with this impediment, LaFournaise believes the county’s first precedence for encouraging tourism needs to be enhancing the native infrastructure. 

“Simply having a pleasant highway that loops round from Cienega to Hwy 25, alone, could be wonderful for our tourism,” she stated.

Christine Coke, who owns Coke Farm in San Juan Bautista with husband Dale, stated her workers have been affected by the shortage of inexpensive housing within the county. 

She stated this difficulty is a normal downside for start-up companies, since companies can not afford to pay their workers effectively till the enterprise grows. 

“Now we have to start out paying someplace,” she stated. “It’s not proper up right here. So you’ve got new individuals come into city and there isn’t accessible housing. That’s very troublesome.”

Attendees stated the very best outcomes for the county 10 years from now could be a collaboration between all authorities companies and native companies; preservation of ranches; clean flowing visitors on all county roads; strong agri-tourism; Hollister turns into a vacation spot as a substitute of a bed room group for commuters; and downtown Hollister turns into a vibrant and profitable vacation spot.  

Attendees stated the worst attainable outcomes for the county in 10 years from now would come with agriculture and ranches changing into out of date; companies closing; the county remaining a bypass for vacationers; Hollister remaining a bed room group; deteriorating infrastructure and persevering with lack of tourism alternatives; and building of extra housing developments with out new enterprise improvement.

The assembly was held on the Group Basis for San Benito County’s Epicenter in Hollister as a part of BenitoLink’s Group Imaginative and prescient San Benito County listening periods.  

BenitoLink’s listening periods are a continuation of these executed by the Group Basis for San Benito County. A number of notable outcomes adopted the muse’s 2011-12 listening periods. 

• The founding of BenitoLink, a nonprofit information group serving the residents of San Benito County with native and regional information and data
• The REACH Parks Basis, which has been central to the event of parks and strolling trails in San Benito County
• The Group Basis Girls’s Fund, which has helped girls with monetary help and academic applications
• Native nonprofits such because the San Benito County Farm Bureau recognized the necessity for leaders with a greater understanding of agriculture, and labored to carry certified staff members into management positions

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