Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| U of A Planning Class - Table 2 | ||
| CALA Building University of Arizona, Tucson | ||
| Date of Conversation: Thursday, December 02, 2010 Time: 3:30 – 5:30 PM | ||
| Facilitator: Chris Bailey Recorder: Joe Silins | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 11 | ||
| Theme 1. Transportation | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Bike lanes | ||
| Wide streets | ||
| Biking | ||
| 3rd Street bike path | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More public transit options | ||
| Subway system | ||
| Less traffic | ||
| Transportation | ||
| Traffic | ||
| Less traffic | ||
| Less traffic | ||
| Better drivers | ||
| Street/bike lane condition | ||
| Safer bike paths | ||
| More highways | ||
| Less traffic | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Streetcar important to Tucson's core | ||
| When on fast streets, disconnected | ||
| Road rage | ||
| When in a car, you are not part of the city; don't stop for coffee or interact with friends | ||
| Stress about time in transport | ||
| No public transportation in Oro Valley | ||
| Limited alternatives | ||
| No reason/incentive not to drive | ||
| Inability to walk in suburbs | ||
| Death defying | ||
| Plan everything around it | ||
| Access to everything | ||
| Part of everyday lives | ||
| Theme 2. Crime | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| High crime rate | ||
| Less crime | ||
| Theme 3. Weather | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| No snow | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Hot summers | ||
| Better building strategies - passive heating | ||
| Awnings along streets and artificial shade | ||
| Very dry and dehydrating - lack of vegetation | ||
| No tornadoes, hurricanes, or other natural disasters | ||
| Warm weather inhibits use of public transit | ||
| Warm winters- 3 1/2 months - encourage outdoor activity | ||
| Lack solar-power | ||
| White roofs reflect the sun (not on all houses, lot of tile roofs) | ||
| Lack of shade/lack of vegetation | ||
| Heat island effect - too much asphalt | ||
| No drainage, a lot of flooding | ||
| Theme 4. Education | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| U of A | ||
| U of A | ||
| Higher education opportunities | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Education (All types) | ||
| Education (K-12) | ||
| Primary education choices/quality | ||
| Theme 5. Culture | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Proximity to border | ||
| Cultural differences | ||
| Being in a mid-sized city | ||
| Culture | ||
| Culture/History | ||
| Theme 6. Streetscapes | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| 6th Ave Dog Park (near my house) can walk to it | ||
| Clean Streets | ||
| In Oro Valley there is well-maintained streets and landscaping | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Walkability - too spread out | ||
| Lack of sidewalks | ||
| Poorly kept streets and landscaping | ||
| More sidewalks | ||
| "Prettier" neighborhoods | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Cars parked on streets - forming buffers | ||
| Need more public art | ||
| Well-kept street trees | ||
| It's ugly | ||
| Buffer zones and less asphalt | ||
| Not pedestrian friendly (particularly near U of A) | ||
| Curb cuts and streetscapes | ||
| Difference between Tucson and Oro Valley | ||
| Oro Valley is clean and thoughtful, not so in Tucson | ||
| Theme 7. Downtown | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Downtown area | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More apartments (in the nice parts of) downtown | ||
| More stuff to do downtown | ||
| More attractions downtown | ||
| Downtown | ||
| More active downtown | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Need mixed-use housing Downtown (integrating entertainment) | ||
| Build up sidewalks | ||
| Needs more parking garages instead of on-street parking | ||
| Meet Me at Maynards run (has momentum and is growing) - drink, run/walk. It's all very grassroots and draw to downtown | ||
| Rio Nuevo - major part of downtown needs to be straightened out | ||
| WAMO has potential - (but it needs help, it is a mess) | ||
| Not well-defined downtown | ||
| Like 4th Ave (is it part of Downtown?) | ||
| Day city, lack of nightlife - more activities for all ages | ||
| It has potential, it's up-and-coming | ||
| Theme 8. Smarter Growth | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| La Encantada development style | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Smarter development | ||
| Stop the small town mentality | ||
| Denser core | ||
| Too much sprawl | ||
| Less sprawl | ||
| More compact development needed | ||
| Poor store designs | ||
| Not enough enjoyable public areas in town | ||
| Less strip malls | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Limit the size of parking lots | ||
| Form-based code - design based (design standards are needed or Tucson's uniqueness will be limited | ||
| More NBH services | ||
| More environmentally friendly buildings | ||
| Improve public transportation | ||
| Stop widening streets | ||
| Limit sprawl - don't sell land/buy land to limit sprawl - allow higher density | ||
| Theme 9. Outdoors | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Mountains | ||
| Surrounding wilderness areas | ||
| Hiking | ||
| Surrounded by mountains | ||
| Desert | ||
| Landscape | ||
| Outdoors | ||
| Nature | ||
| The views of the mountains | ||
| Hiking/outdoors | ||
| Mountains | ||
| Scenery | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Riparian areas are important, water recharge zones | ||
| Wildlife good, roadrunners are good | ||
| Wildlife- coyotes, javelinas, snakes - not a good thing (lots of pet deaths from wildlife. | ||
| Parks in Tucson have grass (it's expensive) place to play for kids, soccer. Grass uses water - precious resources, in Oro Valley hiking | ||
| Lots of open space - horseriding/biking (close to the city) national parks close to the city (it's a tourist attraction) | ||
| Something you can do | ||
| Parks are dangerous and hidden from the street - a homeless shelter | ||
| Need more parks downtown | ||
| Public space concentrated in mountains around wealthier | ||
| Saguaro Cactus is awesome - cultural icon of the Wild West | ||
Tuesday, December 14, 2010