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