Life Sciences Ready Communities

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Zoning & Permitting

Does your municipality allow Biotechnology laboratories and manufacturing uses:*

By special user permits

Uses are allowed by right

By other means

Please detail.*

Does your municipality's zoning ordinances allow streamlined permitting?*

Yes

Does your municipality have established life sciences overlay zones that reduce regulatory barriers?

Yes

Please provide any other relevant information regarding the zoning and permitting process for life sciences industry sectors (expedited approval processes, life sciences/mixed-use overlay districts, etc).

Does your municipality have identified buildings and/or land sites for biotech developments inside official municipal plans and planning documents (comprehensive plans, economics development strategic plans, land use plans, etc.)?*

Yes

Please detail.

Zoning & Permitting Score (Max 10 points)

Site Readiness

Does your municipality contain a site or sites that are currently avilable within the JobsOhio Zoom Prospector portal or are SiteOhio certified?*

We have Ohio-certified site(s)

We have site(s) that are available in the JobsOhio Zoom Prospector

We have uncertified site(s)

Please detail your site(s).

Site Utilities and Infrastructure

Site area acreage*

> 250 acres

50-250 acres

< 50 acres

Additional comments

Does your municipality's buildings have the following?*

Mark all that apply

Generator

Electrical

Steam

Cold Storage

Number: Building Features

Additional building infrastructure comments.

Site Utilities

Does your site have the following?

Mark all that apply

Water

Sewer

Gas

Additional site utilities comments.

Describe the access and proximity to local infrastructure (highway, airport, rail).

Number: calc site

Site Readiness Score (Max 15 points)

Workforce Availability

Looking at the county the site is located within, what is the county's total civilian labor force?*

150,000+ workers

75,001 – 150,000 workers

25,001 – 75,000 workers

< 25,000 workers

Does the site's county currently have in place any of the following?

Mark all that apply

Biotechnology Bootcamp

Local technical college programs

Higher Education Facilities

Community College Facilities

Please detail the existing workforce programs that are currently in place within your community.

Does your municipality have existing buildings containing laboratory space with active testing and experiments?*

Yes

What biosafety level (BSL) are they rated?

BSL-1: Agents of no or minimal hazard to lab personnel or the environment.

BSL-2: Agents with moderate hazard to lab personnel and the environment.

BSL-3: Indigenous or exotic agents that may cause serious or lethal disease via inhalation.

BSL-4: Dangerous, exotic agents posing high individual risk of life-threatening disease.

Please detail.

Workforce Score (Max 15 points)

Community Narrative

Please describe any other relevant information regarding your community's vision on the local life science industry sector. This could include recent successful projects, future projects, local stakeholders' vision, or more.*

Documentation & Attachments

Zoning Maps and Documents*

Accepted file types: jpg, png, pdf, jpeg, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, rtf, csv, txt, Max. file size: 450 MB.

Utility Capacity Reports*

Accepted file types: jpg, png, pdf, jpeg, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, rtf, csv, txt, Max. file size: 450 MB.

Letters of Support

Accepted file types: jpg, png, pdf, jpeg, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, rtf, csv, txt, Max. file size: 450 MB.

Program Certification

Consent*

I certify that the information I have provided is accurate and complete.*

Early scoring

Life Science Ready Community Application

Zoning & Permitting

Site Readiness

Site Utilities and Infrastructure

Site Utilities

Workforce Availability

Community Narrative

Documentation & Attachments

Program Certification