Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| Living Streets Alliance / Watershed Management Group | ||
| Ward 6 Office - 3202 East 1st St., Tucson | ||
| Date of Conversation: Monday, February 24, 2011 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM | ||
| Facilitator: Joe Silins Recorder: Arlan Colton | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 13 | ||
| Theme 1. Growth Economy | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Encourage mixed-use | ||
| Redirection to a sustainable future | ||
| Improve connectivity | ||
| Remove massive street front parking lots | ||
| Growth dependency | ||
| Need better planning that includes sustainability values | ||
| Less sprawl | ||
| Urban sprawl | ||
| Growth! Too much too fast= unsustainable | ||
| Curb sprawl | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Poorer pavement | ||
| Jobs and services are being cut | ||
| Resources being stretched - greater inequality for students and others | ||
| It motivates you to take action, to improve the situation | ||
| More and more cars affect us as cyclists | ||
| We neglect our developed areas - there are holes in the urban core | ||
| Need leadership to change direction | ||
| Our car culture may not be the best model | ||
| There is a lack of recognition of other development models | ||
| It's destruction of local identity and Quality of Life | ||
| A growth-based economy doesn't respond to peak oil considerations | ||
| We have a refusal to admit resource limits | ||
| There is no recognition of the impact of growth on the environment | ||
| Growth is a cultural assumption | ||
| The number of people who are already here is an unsustainable number | ||
| Theme 2. Transportation | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Cycling around town | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Fix the lack of continuous bike and pedestrian lanes | ||
| Alternative transportation to reduce auto use | ||
| Improve bicycling and transportation culture and infrastructure | ||
| I want to connect to Phoenix etc. by train or efficient bus system | ||
| Poor alternative transportation | ||
| Safer, more extensive network of alternative transit routes | ||
| Lack of public/alternative transportation | ||
| I want it safer and easier to get around town without a car | ||
| Car dependency | ||
| Improve bike facilities | ||
| Emphasis on the car in determining direction and extent of expansion (aka too many roads, too wide) | ||
| Road widening | ||
| Theme 3. Natural Resources | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Outdoor environment | ||
| Beauty (desert environment) | ||
| Mountains and open space | ||
| Mountains and outdoors | ||
| Seeing nature from the city | ||
| The natural environment | ||
| Surrounding environment | ||
| The climate (monsoons) | ||
| Unique ecosystem | ||
| Environment and climate | ||
| Desert conservation awareness | ||
| Wildlife and natural areas within the urban area | ||
| Sonoran desert | ||
| Unique Sonoran Desert | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Loss of flowing rivers | ||
| Theme 4. Local Identity | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Provide information about Tucson for new comers | ||
| Appreciate our underappreciated heritage | ||
| Theme 5. Diversity: Culture and Art | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Active lifestyle | ||
| Rich cultural heritage and diversity | ||
| Diversity: ethnicities, languages, cultures, perspectives | ||
| Music (KXCI, free shows like the Tucson Folk Fest, etc.) | ||
| Arts Community | ||
| Economic and cultural diversity | ||
| UofA cultural influence | ||
| Diversity of people and biodiversity | ||
| Diversity "edginess" | ||
| Diversity | ||
| Cultural diversity | ||
| Cultural diversity | ||
| Theme 6. Community | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Active (activist) community | ||
| Activist community | ||
| Small town feel with big city amenities | ||
| Grassroots activism | ||
| The people/community | ||
| Small town feel in a city | ||
| Community | ||
| Friendly close-knit community | ||
| Downtown neighborhoods and community | ||
| Sense of community | ||
| Friendly people | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Broaden community participation | ||
| Theme 7. Economy | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Innovative people and non-profit organizations | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Boom and bust economy (mining, development and defense) | ||
| Theme 8. Water | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| More water allocated to environment | ||
| Improve water resources | ||
| Water security for environment | ||
| Dependence on water from Colorado River | ||
| Restored ecosystem along urban washes | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Maintain the enjoyment of flowing water | ||
| The way we drive during monsoons - safety on flooded roads and the splashing of bicyclists | ||
| Hotter/discomfort when it doesn't rain; the urban heat island effect | ||
| Flooding is partially the result of the current parking code | ||
| Want to keep the diversity and characteristics of the current plant community | ||
| Important to wildlife and ecosystems | ||
| An overbuilt environment causes flooding | ||
| Climate change will add to the problem | ||
| Impact other systems in addition to our own, i.e. the Colorado River | ||
| Health environment needs healthy watersheds | ||
| Human society depends on a functioning fresh water ecosystem | ||
| Our very survival is dependent on water, it is not a luxury | ||
| Access to clean, potable water is a basic human right | ||
| Theme 9. Public Safety | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Safety issues in neighborhoods (walkability, fast cars, no sidewalks) | ||
| Theme 10. Equity | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Inequitable distribution of opportunities, resources | ||
| Equality and funding issues for schools | ||
| Theme 11. Leadership | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Leadership and efficiency of government | ||
| Lack of forward thinking by government and power structure | ||
| Resistance to change, i.e. sustainability | ||
| Antagonistic jurisdictions | ||
Tuesday, March 15, 2011