Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| Easter Seals Blake Foundation Campo Urbano | ||
| 4410 W Ironwood Hills, Tucson | ||
| Date of Conversation: Friday, February 18, 2011 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM | ||
| Facilitator: Patrick Hartley Recorder: Sue Morman | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 9 | ||
| Theme 1. Transportation and Government Workers | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More road work in Tucson | ||
| Change and fix roads and less potholes in Tucson | ||
| Public transportation | ||
| Theme 2. Work Services | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Like work | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Get more people helping with getting people better pay and more raises | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| For survival | ||
| More landscaping jobs | ||
| Helps pay for health insurance and medical care | ||
| Provide firewood | ||
| More money for fishing licenses (Silverbell Lake) | ||
| Less hardship and stress, happy and healthy communities | ||
| Help with disabilities and special needs | ||
| More money to pay teachers | ||
| More money for tattoos | ||
| More money for schooling/college/education/training | ||
| More government money to support families | ||
| Need for food, clothing, place to stay | ||
| More hours and more pay to support families | ||
| Theme 3. Outdoor Activities | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Fishing | ||
| Hiking | ||
| Bmx biking | ||
| Animals native to Tucson | ||
| The electric storms | ||
| the surrounding natural resources | ||
| Nature and the desert | ||
| The beautiful sunsets and rainbows | ||
| Cactus | ||
| The monsoon and the rain showers and cold and swimming in the summer time | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Jumping Cactus | ||
| Too hot and too dry | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Ride horses | ||
| More mountain biking trails | ||
| Landscaping | ||
| Volunteers to fix peoples houses - always run down | ||
| More public swimming pools - more fun and exercise | ||
| More trees - for air and birds | ||
| Condense size | ||
| More parks - nicer parks in city - no drugs | ||
| Better air quality | ||
| Need to reduce littering and trash (clean up along roads) | ||
| More exercise bikes | ||
| More hiking - encourage fresh air | ||
| Need for exercise | ||
| Need 55 more fishing lakes | ||
| Theme 4. Tucson and Phoenix | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Night time, tattoo clubs | ||
| Like the people in the community | ||
| People | ||
| Good bookstores | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Less homes in the mountains | ||
| Sprawl | ||
| Too many people in Tucson | ||
| Theme 5. Activities | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Sense of community | ||
| I like the people in Tucson | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Keep mixture of music - encourage diversity | ||
| Better services and kinder people | ||
| Connection and normalcy | ||
| More music and free concerts | ||
| More cabs (like NYC and Chicago) | ||
| Need to get to know people - keep people | ||
| Dances for meeting people (Armory Park) | ||
| 75 more night clubs - transportation to night clubs | ||
| Good places to meet people (bookstores) | ||
Tuesday, March 08, 2011