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The article aims at showing and discussing the thresholds appearing on the path of local entrepreneurship development. The self-government system is and will always be a resultant of wishes and goals, on the one hand, and effects of various types of resistence, which has to be overcome, on the other hand. The appearing barriers not only hamper the implementation of set goals but they frequently also impede the economic and social development of the country’s administrative districts. The pace and effectiveness of overcoming them are determined by the local authority’s skills of thinking and acting. It is an extremely important issue to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a given district. This can be facilitated by designing a strategy of the district’s development. Unfortunately, it is not a common phenomenon, although a marked growth of interest in these issues can be observed at the beginning of the second, term of office of the local self-government.