Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| IGT Facilitator/Scribe Training No. 1 | ||
| Junior League – 2099 E. River Rd., Tucson | ||
| Date of Conversation: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM | ||
| Facilitator: Joanie Sawyer Recorder: Anita Fonte | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 17 | ||
| Theme 1. Culture | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Culture | ||
| Friends | ||
| Open friendly people | ||
| Culture (Mexican food) | ||
| Casual life style | ||
| Food / restaurants | ||
| Good local food | ||
| Access to a lot of diverse cultural opportunities, food and events | ||
| Variety and diversity | ||
| Cultural diversity | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Not enough young professionals | ||
| Theme 2. Economics | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| University environment | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Creating jobs for young adults | ||
| Create a collective community vision | ||
| Tax increases | ||
| Theme 3. Crime | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Public safety – crime/drugs | ||
| Reduce crime | ||
| Theme 4. Land use – How land is used | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| My neighborhood is walkable with access to many amenities | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Provide greater accessibility and walkable areas throughout the region | ||
| Service and stores are too far from each other and homes | ||
| Theme 5. Lack of civic engagement | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Apathy | ||
| The negative, parochial, head in the sand attitude about any proposed change | ||
| Political infrastructure and “politics” | ||
| Strong elected “Leaders” | ||
| Lack of opportunity for engagement | ||
| Often low levels of environmental consciousness | ||
| Theme 6. Location of the region | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Historical points of interest | ||
| We are close to the border | ||
| Theme 7. Rural areas | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Availability of health care in rural areas | ||
| Access to services – transit, rural road maintenance | ||
| Theme 8. Weather | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Weather | ||
| Climate | ||
| Sunshine | ||
| Winter weather | ||
| Theme 9. Intrinsic natural environment and resources | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Open space | ||
| Diverse natural features (mountain ranges and vegetation) | ||
| Sunset on the mountains | ||
| Views of the landscape | ||
| Mountains and cactus | ||
| Bounded by natural open space | ||
| Sonoran desert | ||
| Theme 10. Active recreational environment | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Good hikes nearby | ||
| Active and passive open space and recreation | ||
| Access to mountains | ||
| Very accessible natural environment | ||
| Visual and real access to desert and mountains | ||
| Mountain ranges – hiking | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Ease of access to Catalinas | ||
| More inner city parks and recreation | ||
| Theme 11. Built environment – man-made/functional | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Sprawl – need to improve connectivity | ||
| More trees | ||
| Strip malls | ||
| The mostly generic, sucky looking built environment | ||
| Theme 12. Downtown Tucson | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Lack of downtown | ||
| Create a vibrant downtown that doesn't need 2nd Sat. because it will be there | ||
| Theme 13. Transportation | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Being able to bike places | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Better public transit | ||
| Traffic congestion | ||
| Travel ease from west to east | ||
| Infrastructure / connectivity | ||
| Better pedestrian roads that intersect walls | ||
| Improved, comfortable sidewalks | ||
| Too many lights while driving | ||
| Need better regional transit system such as light rail | ||
| Transportation options for non-drivers | ||
| We depend too much on cars | ||
| More bike paths | ||
| Bus and public transport | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Poor transportation limits economic growth in the community | ||
| Housing affordability and workforce access is a problem | ||
| Transportation should help create community | ||
| I'm not teaching my child about various types of trans. and effects on community | ||
| It's mostly not safe for my child to walk alone | ||
| My own values are being eaten away – I feel bad | ||
| The air we breathe | ||
| Health, safety and exercise do not equal cars | ||
| Our existing transportation solutions do not equal future growth | ||
| I love my car but I want others to not be in their cars | ||
| Transportation is a means not an end | ||
| Pedestrians downtown affect economy – can walk and drink | ||
| Emissions lead to climate change | ||
| Non-drivers have limited opportunities in the community | ||
| Need to plan my life around bus schedule - convenience | ||
| Too much wasted time getting from here to there | ||
| Everybody needs to get somewhere | ||
| Look at other countries – cars equal lack of community | ||
| Transportation means financial commitment | ||
Sunday, October 24, 2010