IGTIGT Phase I Summary Statements - Draft 2/18/11

Summary Number: 11
 
Maintain a clean and attractive visual appearance of the built environment
 
 "This is a beautiful city with beautiful people. It hurts me personally to see so many run-down buildings along major streets -- like Speedway, Grant, etc. Our city needs to go on a major beautification project."
 "There are some old, dirty areas of Tucson, and it makes it look dumpy. Appearances mean a lot to people, and I think some of the older, crappier areas of Tucson are a turn off to folks who would otherwise love living here."
 "I like good architecture, there is no charm in the houses here, they look like boxes"
 "Better care of the boulevards that are overgrown with weeds and have accumulated trash"
 "Many streets have very ugly medians/shoulders/sidewalks with overgrown plants, weeds, garbage and are very bad eyesores."
 "We build crrrap."
 "Most of the new developments in Tucson are right out of the Southern California playbook; no architectural style or sense of the desert. So are our commercial spaces. Ugh."
 "Driving through many of Tucson's older neighborhoods is like visiting a war zone. There is a ton of vacant and underutilized land, trash, and poorly maintained properties."
 "Driving thru Tucson on 10 is depressing. It is junky and dirty looking. Gives a bad impression of the city. And so many neighborhoods are scary looking."