Imagine Greater Tucson
Phase I Data Gathering
| Public Community Conversation - Quail Creek | ||
| Quail Creek Country Club - 2550 E. Quail Crossing Bl. Ballroom #3, Green Valley/Sahuarita | ||
| Date of Conversation: Monday, February 28, 2011 Time: 3:30 � 5:30 PM | ||
| Facilitator: Sarah More Recorder: Mary Reynolds | ||
| Number of Tables: 1 Number of Participants: 12 | ||
| Theme 1. Scenery/Outdoor Activities | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Variety of Public Parks | ||
| Outdoor Activities | ||
| Great Outdoor Activities | ||
| Golf Courses | ||
| Active Opportunities | ||
| Desert Museum | ||
| No High Rises to block view | ||
| Outdoor Nature ex: Botanical Garden, Desert Museum | ||
| Beauty�surrounded by mountains, great places to hike | ||
| Scenery/environment | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| I can ride my bike every day, healthy | ||
| Sets Tucson region apart | ||
| It�s who we are/who I am | ||
| People come here for beauty and tourism | ||
| Theme 2. Small Town Feel | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Diversity of people and places | ||
| Size | ||
| Small town feel | ||
| Small town feel even though large city�community feel | ||
| Atmosphere �things to do for all ages --friendly | ||
| Friendly atmosphere | ||
| Small town feel | ||
| Theme 3. Growth/Infrastructure | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Able to park a car close to theaters | ||
| Broad thoroughfares, i.e. wide streets | ||
| Interconnectedness, proximity/close together everything within 30 minutes | ||
| Location�things nearby | ||
| Potential high quality livability | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Traffic�need to plan for future be proactive vs. retro | ||
| Roads!! Repair | ||
| Hard to get from one side of town to the other, traffic, potholes | ||
| Lack of covered/shaded parking | ||
| Cross town traffic flow needs to be better planned, more public transportation | ||
| Growth�more organized | ||
| Growth so far has been haphazard, seems like no planning whatsoever | ||
| Could use more public transportation | ||
| Get competition among supermarkets | ||
| Too much traffic, possible solution - more public transport, light rail, carpool, etc. | ||
| Tucson has potential; we need to take advantage of its �quaint� personality | ||
| Why is this important? How does this affect you? | ||
| Draw more diversity | ||
| Need business growth | ||
| Keep kids/family here with jobs | ||
| Need college students to LOVE it here | ||
| Schools need more funding, K-12, higher education | ||
| Business look for good schools | ||
| Need potential for young people, jobs | ||
| Is (Tucson) Mayor connected to community? | ||
| Perceived lack of communication between leaders and followers | ||
| People are nicer with more space | ||
| Like clean wide roads in Tucson | ||
| Why we chose a planned community (Quail Creek resident speaking) | ||
| Keep clean, why we moved here (Quail Creek resident speaking) | ||
| Theme 4. Human-Made Ugliness | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Little graffiti | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Get plastic bottles that are recycled for $ | ||
| Tall highway advertising | ||
| Slag heaps at mines are ugly | ||
| Trash all over the highways, roads, fields | ||
| Theme 5. Safety | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Crime, downtown should be safer | ||
| Guns in bars, guns general, too lax controls on gun ownership | ||
| Theme 6. Alternative Energy | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Encourage more use of solar energy and wind farms | ||
| Not enough push for solar | ||
| Theme 7. Medical | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Need more trauma units in Tucson | ||
| Need hospital less than 45 min from Green Valley | ||
| Theme 8. Weather | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Weather | ||
| Great weather! (most of the time) | ||
| Weather�shorts 300+ days | ||
| Theme 9. Leadership | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Sahuarita Government as a positive example | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Minimize Dysfunctional Leadership | ||
| Wacky legislature | ||
| Sales Tax too high | ||
| Theme 10. Education | ||
| What do you most want to change or improve about our community/region? | ||
| Schools-need to fund them, students are our future. | ||
| Need to fund education at higher level | ||
| Theme 11. U of A | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| The University, everything there social & academic | ||
| U of A campus | ||
| Theme 12. Activities | ||
| What do you like the most about our community/region? | ||
| Dancing opportunities | ||
Wednesday, March 16, 2011