With approximately 1,500 jobs at stake—about 25% of the local workforce—the ripple effects on schools, healthcare, and community services could be profound. Lithgow’s leaders recognize this and are proactively planning to mitigate economic contraction and foster resilience. The city is also known for its sporting achievements and is even the birthplace of two-time Olympic gold medalist Marjorie Jackson, who set 13 world records as a sprinter. “We have a community that’s very passionate about sports.We have fantastic Rugby League teams,as well as soccer and cricket teams, and we’re reinvigorating sports locally to continue that as part of our strength, character, and identity,” Edgecombe explains. Fortunately, these two strengths have led to unique proposals that take advantage of the city’s move away from coal and towards more eco-friendly energy sources. The city council intends to balance passive and active recreation with residential lands and heavy industrial/commercial areas separated by vegetated buffer zones to avoid cross-contamination of the land. 63 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 07, ISSUE 01 CITY OF LITHGOW COUNCIL
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