Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
Public Community Conversation Table 1 | ||
Ward 6 Office - 1st St & Anderson Av, Tucson | ||
Date of Conversation: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Time: 6:30 8:30 PM | ||
Facilitator: Patrick Hartley Recorder: Kiry | ||
Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 9 | ||
Theme 1. Education | ||
What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
Education K-12 & Univ. | ||
Better educational opportunities | ||
Improved education | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Increases awareness and cultural competence | ||
Provokes thinking offers challenge to status quo | ||
Provides upward mobility | ||
University fosters innovation take away education, take away innovation | ||
Economic driver | ||
Future of everything gets people out of poverty | ||
Economic asset attracts new business | ||
Concern for kids having a good education and quality job opportunities we're creating a 3rd world country | ||
What people / voters want | ||
Wants to be able to have good conversations | ||
Opportunity for children | ||
Public investment in education | ||
Equal access to education | ||
Teachers make the difference not just $$ | ||
Makes for a rational society | ||
Society does not want to invest $$ - won't raise taxes | ||
State has to put more money to it - we value education | ||
Provides spark need good teachers | ||
Theme 2. Economy | ||
What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
Creative clusters, e.g., Tech Council | ||
Local merchant associations e.g. Campbell Ave, Buy Local | ||
What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
Better / more opportunities for quality jobs | ||
Economy | ||
City services | ||
More / better real jobs, not just McJobs | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Need this for these other improvements | ||
Theme 3. Transportation | ||
What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
Commitment to bicycling infrastructure and alternate transportation | ||
Transportation access and biking | ||
Bike friendliness needs improvement but is a darn fine start | ||
What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
Reduce dependence on autos for transportation | ||
Public transit | ||
Not very bike or pedestrian friendly | ||
More bikes, fewer cars, more/better transit | ||
Public transportation system | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Street car is a start | ||
Bike on main arterial streets hazard for everyone sidewalks | ||
Pedestrians need to be considered | ||
Light rail is an economic driver | ||
Get away from cars need alternatives | ||
Bikes, walking, buses | ||
Theme 4. Outdoor Activities | ||
What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
Outdoor recreation opportunities | ||
Available outdoor activities (parks desert museum) | ||
Loss of Spring Training | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Small and large parks important swimming pools | ||
Want whole park to be open including swimming pools | ||
Well maintained parks important | ||
Theme 5. Natural Environment | ||
What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
Views of the mountains | ||
Climate | ||
Weather !! - 350+ days/year for biking no snow shoveling | ||
Climate | ||
Fall, winter and spring climate | ||
Natural beauty | ||
The natural environment (Sonoran desert) | ||
Climate / geography | ||
What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
Accept reality that water is going to be a limiting resource to growth | ||
More parks | ||
Water availability long term (sustainability) | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Fresh air is good for the soul | ||
Sun is good for the soul | ||
Good potential | ||
Should be there for all | ||
Access is important | ||
No maintenance $$ | ||
Sense of ID | ||
Being destroyed and is in limited supply air quality preserve | ||
Increase the sense of wonder hard to be arrogant when you look at Mt. Lemmon | ||
Economic asset | ||
Don't bulldoze my desert and put stucco boxes on it | ||
Theme 6. Built Environment | ||
What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
Variety of housing stock | ||
What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
Sprawl | ||
Sprawl | ||
Developer greed destroying historic neighborhoods | ||
University's destructive behavior toward surrounding neighborhoods | ||
To see more pride of ownership including renters | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Land trusts preserve open space | ||
Infrastructure needs to be considered if we increase density more expensive | ||
Tear down seedy neighborhoods and build high-density family homes | ||
Mixed income housing that provides amenities | ||
More density in central core | ||
Integrate high density but don't lose community or quality of life for people who already live there | ||
Preserve what we've got and improve those things | ||
Don't let core go to pot | ||
Mini-dorms bad (UA) | ||
Neighborhoods being neglected by city streets, sidewalks quality of life issue invest public $$ in sidewalks | ||
Old houses need to be repaired, preserved and protected as an asset | ||
Preserve historic architecture | ||
Theme 7. Creative Environment | ||
What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
Community is generally supportive of diversity & creativity Wingspan Evolution of small events into full-on big time must-dos | ||
Artistic | ||
Opportunities to attend live performances of musical events | ||
Art / music scene | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Keep me here | ||
More vibrant / more interesting | ||
Large city part of small town feel | ||
Have a lot of creative people supported by patrons, not by government | ||
Economic / cultural asset | ||
Theme 8. Political Culture | ||
What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
Friendly, liberal attitudes | ||
Liberal ideas | ||
Interconnected networks of people | ||
Sense of community (people get involved) | ||
What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
Political, elected officials being trapped into a set of ways to think & act | ||
Republican dictatorship from Phoenix | ||
Revitalize downtown faster | ||
Negligent / not caring landlords | ||
State government | ||
Better leadership from elected officials | ||
Conflict of city / county governments | ||
Having better long term planning & vision for the community | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Bullying by tea party people is appalling need to find a means to have bi-partisan decisions | ||
Public dialogue purposefully develop a citizenry | ||
We have to be part of the solution | ||
Media that represents well | ||
Disenfranchised Dems. | ||
Reasonable decisions no knee jerk | ||
Important to fix other problems | ||
Theme 9. Cultural Diversity | ||
What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
Diversity culture food arts | ||
Diversity of cultures | ||
U of Az & the culture emanating from the U | ||
Mexican culture | ||
Small town feel in good size city | ||
What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
Improve quality of education for all citizens zero-tolerance, anti-bullying policies especially against LGBT & youth assume that all youth are brilliant & able to learn | ||
Growing intolerance of Latino community members | ||
Me, me, me attitude everyone feels things are bad unless their specific niche issues are resolved. | ||
Better integration of diverse cultures | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Resist ethnophobic activities (ignorance) | ||
Move toward charter schools moves away from acceptance | ||
Socially stabilizing | ||
Invest in youth to move away from destructive activities | ||
Maynard's run | ||
All Soul's procession | ||
2nd Saturday | ||
Theme 10. Crime | ||
Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
Crime-free | ||
Doesn't give ex-cons the ability to change |
Friday, December 10, 2010