The future

for more industry in Senoia could be a company with a

large, campus-like setting.

That's the

verdict 21st Century Coweta president Scott Frederick

delivered to the Senoia City Council last week.

Frederick

appeared before the council to talk about some of the

activities the organization currently has underway. For

the last four years, Senoia was an active contributor to

the organization, but declined to participate this year.

Frederick

said the organization is getting ready to embark on

implementing the Vision 2020 plan that was created last

year by 21st Century and community leaders.

The plan

provides a road map for the county maintaining its

quality of life, while still attracting industrial

prospects to lower the tax burden on property owners.

Once the

plan gets implemented, Frederick said the county will be

one of the few in the nation to move forward in such an

aggressive manor.

Market

Street Services is implementing the plan at a cost of

$97,000. Frederick hopes to see his budget doubled in the

next few years and said industrial developers around the

country are taking a look at Coweta County. After months

of research, Coweta County has a vision for the future,

he said.

Vision 2020

outlines a strategic growth outline for economic

development in the county and was funded by the county,

the city of Newnan, Peachtree Regional Hospital, the

Coweta County School System, the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of

Commerce and 21st Century Coweta.

The vision

outlines five goals for the county.

The plan

calls for two additional exits on Interstate 85 that will

be used for future industrial and commercial development.

The goals

that Vision 2020 advocates are:

Building a stronger

economy. One of the ways to expand the economy would be

to make the county a prime location for new

technology-based companies. The plan suggests the county

seek companies that emerge elsewhere in the Atlanta

region and offer incentives to lure them to the county.

The plan

also calls for the county to become a regional center for

corporate offices, such as insurance and

telecommunication companies.

Strengthening work force

skills.

The plan

advocates lowering the high school dropout rate in the

county by 50 percent in the next five years and

increasing adult high school equivalency graduates by 50

percent.

Other ways

of strengthening the work force include creating programs

through the school system to train workers and lowering

the student-pupil ratio in the county's schools.

Improving the physical

infrastructure for business.

The biggest

part of this goal would be creating a county-wide master

plan for infrastructure development that would insure

water and sewer service would be available for office and

commercial development along the I-85 corridor.

Expanding private business

services.

Two parts

of this goal include building a high-quality conference

center to introduce more people to the county and

creating speculative office and industrial space.

Protecting the quality of

life.

The plan

calls for county-wide design guidelines that will help

retain the county's small town look.

Frederick

said he wants to make sure that Senoia keeps its small

town feel, but said there's no reason an industry that

would use the heavily forested area around the city for a

campus-like headquarters would not work.

Mayor Joan

Trammell agreed with Frederick.

"We

certainly need the jobs," she said.

Frederick

said he would update the council periodically on progress

in implementing the Vision 2020 plan and encouraged the

council to join in his efforts.