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Podcast: Spartanburg City News
Episode: 'Plan Spartanburg' to become nation's first citywide comprehensive plan with racial equity as guiding principle
Description: It's not the easiest route to satisfy a state requirement, but here at the City of Spartanburg, we don't shy away from big challenges and we're never afraid to be innovators. That's why when discussions around racial equity in our community were given new urgency on the heels of data shared from USC-Upstate's Metropolitan Studies Institute in their 2018 Spartanburg Racial Equity Index showing large racial disparities in practically every area of our residents' lives, our City Council and City Staff understood that in order to do our part to correct those imbalances, our City's most important guiding development document should...