San Luis Obispo County officials are about to launch the most comprehensive economic development effort since city fathers wooed California Polytechnic University to the Central Coast more than a century ago.
 

The effort is being co-chaired by County Supervisors Frank Mecham and Adam Hill and a broad coalition of businesses working with the San Luis Obispo-based Economic Vitality Corp. or EVC. A steering committee of 40 to 50 business and community leaders has signed on to the effort.

“Economic development strategies are not a quick fix to anything but we’re very committed,” to the project, Hill said in an interview with the Business Times.

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