Part-Time Residents & Family Businesses
Owen Ambur
Bob, the Prairie Family Business Association's about statement is
now in the StratML collection, at https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#PFPA
It reinforces my desire to make it as easy as possible to engage HHI's stakeholders -- including part-timers like you, Dennis, and Mark -- in our comprehensive planning process.
As well-connected and collaborative as we think we may be, we can
always do better. One indicator of our performance in that regard
will be whether folks like you decide you simply cannot resist
sharing more of your time and attention with us in our Truly
Connected community.
Sheryse, the Inclusive WG's plan includes several references to "visitors" but none to part-time residents, who have a wealth of knowledge and experience to be tapped.
Shea, our Connected WG's plan includes a couple references to "new" and "future" residents but none to part-time residents.
In the Economy WG's plan, this objective is tangentially related -- Objective 4.1.1: Seasonality - Consider options to decrease seasonality and use shoulder seasons to make Hilton Head Island a year round destination (arts, education, culinary, sports). However, it falls under the Tourism goal and clearly does not address the interest of part-time residents.
It might be interesting to analyze how the population of
part-timers relates to HHI's annual business cycle and workforce
housing issues. Just a wild thought ... Perhaps someone has
already done that but I don't recall seeing any such stats. The
tourism industry is supported by the CofC but is there any org
that represents part-timers? Perhaps the realtors may to some
degree but obviously not enough to impact real estate taxation.
While the term "residents" might be interpreted as including part-timers, they clearly have specialized interests that should also be taken appropriately into account, particularly since they are unrepresented in the political election process.
Owen
You familiar with https://fambus.org/ ? I and a few colleagues at USD started it over 20 years ago. Very successful business development program with a family business focus.Bob