Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| Public Community Conversation – Oro Valley - Table 1 | ||
| Oro Valley Library, 1305 W. Naranja Dr, Oro Valley | ||
| Date of Conversation: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 Time: 5:30 – 7:30 PM | ||
| Facilitator: Patrick Hartley Recorder: Allison Vaillaincourt | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 20 | ||
| Theme 1. Oro Valley | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Oro Valley Public Schools | ||
| Public Safety in Oro Valley | ||
| The Town of Oro Valley | ||
| Safe neighborhoods in Oro Valley | ||
| Theme 2. Culture | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Cultural diversity in the Tucson region | ||
| Keeping the culture | ||
| Excellent restaurants | ||
| I like Oro Valley for the lifestyle - type of good things you get better than other places | ||
| Very friendly | ||
| Smaller community | ||
| Friendly people | ||
| Community - when you need someone it doesn't take you long before you realize you have a friend in the community | ||
| Multi-cultural mix - both people and the arts | ||
| Cultural diversity | ||
| People | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More support and resources for education | ||
| More community involvement in schools/youth | ||
| More services for low-income and elderly | ||
| Need and arts performing center in Oro Valley | ||
| Theme 3. Public Safety | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Reduce crime | ||
| More speed enforcement on roads | ||
| Public perception of dangers of visiting the area (bloody drug wars and SB1070) | ||
| Theme 4. Growth and Planning | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Contentiousness between different interest groups in region regarding development and growth | ||
| Do less controls on so many items we can use to do faster completions | ||
| Slow up development | ||
| Encourage more diversity in the built environment | ||
| Make development responsible | ||
| Uncontrolled growth | ||
| Multi-use development areas (downtown concept- residential and retail; not industrial | ||
| Sometimes less NIMBY | ||
| Growth | ||
| Theme 5. Sports and Revenue | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Bring back major golf tournaments | ||
| Bring back spring training baseball | ||
| Theme 6. Economics | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Reasonable cost of living | ||
| Relatively cheap cost of living in the region | ||
| Theme 7. Transportation | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Stop lights need to be synchronized | ||
| Bad roads | ||
| Freeways in town | ||
| Traffic and lack of good public transportation | ||
| Improved infrastructure (roads) | ||
| Transportation | ||
| Roads and traffic flow | ||
| Lighting on the roads | ||
| Coordinate traffic signals | ||
| Public transportation | ||
| Road system | ||
| Better and less bumpy roads | ||
| Planning for transportation | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Individual vested interests are hurting the community, but the RTA and PAG hold promise | ||
| The growth of Pinal County will impact our roads | ||
| We refuse to tax ourselves to pay for better roads | ||
| Sustainability and how to pay for public transit are closely related | ||
| NIMBY!!! | ||
| The RTA has supported better planning | ||
| Trade offs: More roads mean less open space | ||
| Theme 8. Regional Nature and Environment | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Beautiful views | ||
| Beautiful landscape | ||
| Wilderness | ||
| Open spaces | ||
| Beauty of the surroundings and environment (the weather) | ||
| What's left of our open space | ||
| The proximity of Mt. Lemmon | ||
| Parks and hiking trails with views | ||
| Views of the mountains | ||
| Natural desert | ||
| Weather and the easy lifestyle | ||
| The Sonoran Desert and mountains. Our open spaces and climate | ||
| Abundance of sunshine | ||
| Sunsets | ||
| Climate | ||
| Climate | ||
| Weather | ||
| Views - Open land areas | ||
| Weather | ||
| Weather | ||
| Mountains | ||
| Beautiful, clear views | ||
| Layout of the town with nature | ||
| Sonoran Desert | ||
| Weather | ||
| Breath-taking environment | ||
| Being able to walk out of my house and go walking or mountain biking | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More solar and renewable energy development and practices | ||
| Stop the sprawl and save what is left of our Sonoran Desert before it is too late | ||
| Poor water conservation | ||
| Control of political signs (which spoil the landscape) | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| We need to incorporate solar into planning | ||
| Fragility of the natural environment should motivate us to plan better | ||
| We should develop on existing farm land because it will reduce water consumption | ||
| Where we do have growth, it should be more dense | ||
| Phoenix has a better built environment, but Tucson has a better natural environment | ||
| Snowbirds come for the weather and contribute a lot of money to the economy | ||
| Sunshine makes people happy (except for politicians) | ||
| We don't have natural disasters | ||
| Brings in tourism and money | ||
| Can do outdoor activities all year round | ||
| It's healthy | ||
| We are drawing down our water resources | ||
| Oro Valley is doing well managing growth | ||
| Fortunate to have national parks | ||
| People are here because of the environment | ||
| Need to preserve historical properties as part of our identity | ||
| Theme 9. Leadership | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Ability to participate in local issues | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| A truly revitalized downtown | ||
| All work together to improve the region | ||
| Need to link this process to COT, PAG, Marana plans | ||
| Property tax method of valuation | ||
| Rio Nuevo mess | ||
| Provide incentives for economic development | ||
| No growth/ lack of planning attitude | ||
| Economic fear - losing talent | ||
| Government | ||
| Leadership | ||
| More jobs | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| We need to plan for in-migration. It's coming. | ||
| Leaders need to work with each other across all boundaries | ||
| Oro Valley is good model for leadership | ||
| Greed destroys leaders | ||
| What do we want from our leaders? | ||
| Uncontrolled growth is the result of the power of the special interests | ||
| Need leadership for sustainability and to establish priorities | ||
| Lack of dynamic leadership - state, county, and local | ||
| Have to manage growth | ||
| Rancho Vistoso as a planned community works very well. No uncontrolled sprawl | ||
| Need to pay our elected leadership better | ||
| Good leaders take a long-term view and make hard decisions | ||
| Need quality people to run for office | ||
| We don't have the budget to fix the roads | ||
| We have a long history of bad leadership in Tucson and Pima County | ||
| BASIS school is high quality due to local leadership | ||
| Good leaders need to represent long-term and new cultures | ||
Saturday, January 15, 2011