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Business Friendly Check-Up SMEDD



Welcome to the Business Friendly Check-Up survey! 

Business friendly communities are better able to attract and retain competitive and market leading businesses, providing quality jobs, robust tax revenues to fund critical community amenities and infrastructure, and an enhanced quality of life for residents and visitors. The Business Friendly Check-up establishes a baseline of key metrics that city/county and community leaders can reference to better understand their communities’ strengths and weaknesses in this area. Such understanding is useful for crafting effective and relevant policies to support continuous improvement in community vitality. 

This check-up is designed to answer the following questions for cities/counties:
  • What can your City/County do to attract and retain more businesses?
  • Where should you focus your efforts to get started?
  • How business friendly is your City/County?
This check-up will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. You may save your answers and finish the check-up later by clicking the "Save and Continue" link in the toolbar below and entering your email address. If you would like a paper copy of the check-up to complete before submitting the online form, please download and print the PDF.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this check-up and for your commitment to fostering a business friendly city/county! Many cities/counties have shared that the objective business friendly evaluation of their strengths and associated identification of areas of improvement have been a catalyst to making their cities/counties more business friendly.