Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| IGT Liaisons - Orientation Group 1 | ||
| HCD Sentinel Bldg - 320 N. Commerce Park Loop, Tucson | ||
| Date of Conversation: Monday, October 04, 2010 Time: 8:00 – 9:00 AM | ||
| Facilitator: Joanie Sawyer Recorder: Donald Ijams | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 6 | ||
| Theme 1. Community | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Easy interaction with people, anywhere, anytime | ||
| Small town feel | ||
| Sense of community – concern and interest among my network | ||
| Small town feel with city amenities | ||
| Cultural diversity – interesting people – academic community | ||
| Sense of community – people willing to connect | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Better cultural integration | ||
| More us instead of me | ||
| Overburden of duplicate, even triplicate, government | ||
| Theme 2. Politics | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Change the conflicts in the political arena | ||
| Inability to move any agenda forward | ||
| Implementation of great ideas floating around the community | ||
| Action – more of it | ||
| Fractiousness | ||
| Distrust of motives among groups | ||
| Polarized politics | ||
| Theme 3. Nature and Environment | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Ease of access to natural environment | ||
| Good integration of natural environment with urban environment – Rillito River Park | ||
| Eight months of great weather and use of outdoors | ||
| Year round outdoor activities and usual good weather | ||
| Sonoran desert | ||
| Being surrounded by mountains | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Protect the Sonoran desert through thoughtful building | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Cheap housing is addictive | ||
| Lack of planning hurts us all | ||
| Community can come together to preserve the environment | ||
| Community's view changing from wide open West to modern urban setting | ||
| Helps to replenish ourselves – desert environment is therapeutic | ||
| Need to preserve the environment | ||
| We're a unique part of the world | ||
| Theme 4. Economics and Development | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Reduce the amount of marketing, advertising and selling things | ||
| Develop a vibrant downtown more quickly | ||
| Theme 5. Communications | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Incivility in civil discourse, especially through email and the internet | ||
| Theme 6. Arts | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Local art scene – I moved here because of it | ||
Wednesday, October 06, 2010