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Careers Close to Home
So you don't have to leave to make a living.
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Live, work, play, and dream
This is our collective vision for a Milton we can all live, work, play, and dream in together - built by all of you in living rooms, doorsteps, kitchen tables and in transit!
- Zainab, September 30
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We have the talent. We have the people. We have the potential.
We need more jobs and businesses, not just houses and warehouses.
It’s time to turn a place of possibility into reality with Careers Close to Home.
October 6
Careers Close to Home
Welcome to the Milton Innovation Challenge!
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October 1
Small businesses & startups
More than half of us leave Milton every morning for work - some of the longest commutes in the region. By 8 a.m., it's a ghost town. Half the town leaves for work, so there's no one left to walk through the door. We'll back small businesses and startups with support on rent, foot traffic, and red tape - so your next opportunity is down the street, not down the 401.
Offices & retail, not just warehouses
We keep approving houses and warehouses, not workplaces. Town hall measures economic success in warehouse square footage. We'll measure it in jobs and businesses - and bring office employers to Milton using a Community Improvement Plan, the same proven tool other municipalities already use.
How the incentive works, in plain terms
A company builds a new office here. That building creates new property tax revenue that didn't exist before. The Town temporarily rebates part of that new revenue - starting at 100% and shrinking by 10% each year until it ends at year ten. No cheques up front. Nothing gets paid unless the project is actually built. The rebate comes from the new taxes the development itself creates - not from your residential taxes. And when the program ends, Milton keeps the full new revenue, every year, forever.
Milton Education Village: Innovation Hub
Milton has 50% more university graduates than the national average, but nowhere for them to go. The current Education Village timeline stretches to 2051. We will fast-track the Innovation Hub with partners, so our talent builds their future at home - the way university towns everywhere seed startups and grow local economies.
We should not have to spend hundreds of dollars a month and three hours a day just getting to work. It's about time we valued our talent and our time.
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