The Northwest Arkansas Council recently released six strategy documents related to the group's regional vision. A discussion of those key strategies, which include a big focus on supporting population growth, took place at the council's annual meeting, held at Razorback Stadium.
The six strategies touched on infrastructure and stormwater; transportation and mobility; housing and development; regional governance; finance and funding; and regional character.
Nelson Peacock, president and CEO of the Northwest Arkansas Council, visited with Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Editor-in-Chief Roby Brock about some of the report's biggest takeaways.
Brock: Water and wastewater have been huge topics of conversation regionally as the strain on infrastructure and sourcing continues with regional growth. As the region heads towards a million people in population, what do you think needs to happen over the next two decades on this front?
Peacock: Where we've been leaning into lately is our wastewater challenges. The long and short of it is we've grown too fast in certain locations to be able to meet the demand that we have for wastewater.
So what we've done is we partnered with the...
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