Imagine Greater Tucson 2010-11 Phase I Community Conversation and Survey Statements Related to Safe and well maintained roads and paths

1	1. Clean up the town, and I'm not specifically speaking about the south side. The dregs of society need to be cleansed.
2	A large part of our ecomony is tourism. Yet when I bring people here I am embarassed of the lack of landscaping, trash everywhere, and the grafetti! The I-10 is most people impression of Tucson- how bout landshaping the medians and making it look nice. Have you driven the I-10 around TEP?!
3	A little cleaner
4	A lot of neighborhoods seem like they are run down. Neighbors don't care about keeping up their yards. Weeds growing all over the sidewalks. Streets full of potholes. The city doesn't have a modern feel to it.
5	A more attractive streetscape
6	A visual upgrade is needed....some neighborhoods are slowly getting an indentity. Need to clean the inner city neighborhoods up....
7	Add more drought-tolerant trees and shrubs along the freeway, and walls with some art to mask the industrial look from I-10. It is not attractive to people passing through Tucson. Stone Ave. really needs some upgrading also, by painting buildings, planting trees, picking up trash, and removing graffiti.
8	After a few years of being in Tucson without, I finally had to buy a car to get around. As population expands, more cars will only mean more congestion/wider roads. Clean, safe, convenient mass transit would free up lanes of cars, and prevent air pollution. More dedicated bike streets would help, too.
9	Air pollution has health consequences. And litter is an eyesore that degrades the community for everyone. Graffiti falls under this category as well. I know we have some graffiti abatement programs, but there is still too much.
10	An improved focus on landscaping and trash pickup would make the City more attractive, especially in the 'gateway' areas.
11	Are there options other than sales tax to fund city services? Rental taxes? Lodging taxes? We need something more stable. The most visible sign of reduction in city support seems to be a huge amount of graffiti right now,but obviously there are so many more areas less visible.
12	Around certain bus areas the plants get out of control so does the trash and just the wear down of certain benches
13	As a person suffering with arthritis, the warm and dry climate appeals to me. I don't like to be restricted by snowfall and the cleanup.
14	As beautiful as Tucson's natural beauty is it is equally remarkable for the many, many eyesores around the city particuarly in areas where there are people who 'are NOT' of 'money'. You don't see the trash, graffit, potholes in the old residential roads in places like the FootHills. Why do we see so much of that outside the 'ring of privilege'?
15	As one who lives in mid-town, I am sick of the slumlord eye-sore trailer parks near Columbus and Pima and other areas. I'm not suggesting making the tenants homeless, but these eyesores have got to go and be replaced with higher quality (yet affordable) housing.
16	Beautiful landscape, clean and fresh atmosphere
17	Because I can bring my children to play and it is very clean
18	Because I don't like walking on dirty streets, it doesn't look good for our town
19	Because the city is clean and beautiful
20	Because the city looks much more beautiful without the ugly graffiti
21	Better landscape maintenance
22	Better landscaping around town, less trash/grafetti
23	Bring more clean industry to the area
24	Can they make it more friendly, like newer bus for more frequent and highly used routes, cleaner vehicle, fewer roads, more bike lanes, more pedestrian friendly areas. more family oriented night life.
25	Certain parts of town, the south and southwest parts of town in particular, have lots of trash and in general seems rundown. It would be ideal to have someone pick up the trash from teh streets on some sort of regular basis. In my home state, the inmates (trustees) would be responsible for road cleanup.
26	City beautification projects
27	City cleanliness
28	City cleanliness (streets, buildings)
29	City streets
30	City wide clean up.
31	City's scruffy/shabby appearance - vacant buildings, buildings on top of streets
32	City-staffed construction / improvement projects are slow; staff in city gov't offices are unprofessional and slow; clear disparity between foothills and s tucson maintenance standards; illegal sign postings everywhere;
33	Clean streets
34	Clean the trash
35	Clean up (remove weeds, trash) keep mountain views and open areas, parks a priority
36	Clean up eye sores, such as the Grant and 1st Ave area. Get rid of graffiti and clean alleys
37	Clean up many neighborhoods and keep trash off the highway sides.
38	Clean up the City. Reinstate graffiti abatement.
39	Clean up the city weeds, streets, medians
40	Clean up the run down areas- put pride into our community. Make Tucson the leader in Solar Energy- with our 360 days of sunshine, it is a no brainer.
41	Cleaner streetscapes
42	Cleanliness and order is beautiful and pleasing
43	Community groups removed 216 tons of trash from Flowing Wells
44	Considering the speed with which the highway was built and added onto, the almost glacial pace of city street construction is intolerable. Incentives for quality yet quick work, and disincentives for delays may help.
45	Constant wind all over Tucson creates blowing trash to accumulate daily. A more concerted effort should be made to pick up liter in public areas. Neighborhoods should take care of their own.
46	Continue to keep our streets clean
47	Culture is a part of my life and I look for it wherever I go. The arts provide this so having it readily accessible is very important. We need to build and maintain a museum community as well. But buildings that have no charm are a waste.
48	Dirt, trash, pride in home and community
49	Dirty, trash
50	Downtown Tucson looks trash filled at times.
51	Eliminate graffiti
52	Enhance and maintain landscaping in public areas.
53	Everytime we have a major event in town, like the GEM SHOW, I am very embarrassed by the pot holes and general condition of the streets. A well kept, tidy city speaks volumes. This includes what people see as they drive in form the airport.
54	Everywhere I drive I am hitting pot holes. This has caused much damage to my car. Also, the streets that spray that tar/rock onto the road and allow drivers to travel right after application should not be allowed. I still have that stuff under my wheel wells and it cannot be removed.
55	Figure out a way to reduce the graffiti and other unlawful behavior.
56	First of all, the roads in Tucson and pima County need some serious carea and maintenance. Additionally, it is a real hastle to get around the city because there are no expressways. The interstates are only valuable if you are passing through. The area needs limited access highways through teh heart of the city and its east side interconnecting with the freeway system. We are not a small town but we have small town infrastructure.
57	Graffiti, trash, crime
58	Graffitti all over town makes the community look trashy and uninviting.
59	Having a clean city makes me proud and enhances the natural beauty. Litter and grafitti are a distraction.
60	Having been through one of the first Citizens Police Academy graduates, I did not appreciate how well trained and how generally more efficient our police officers are in Tucson. I suspect our crime rate is lower than other communities in Arizona because of our training and professionalism. The downturn in the economy is likely to increase crime rates because of fewer badges on the streets.
61	How clean the community is
62	I can't stand traveling in our out of my hometown that i love so much and seeing trash stuck to the fence line all along the interstate. I would feel better about our jailing system if we would put these folks to work, cleaning up the trash instead of watching TV in their cells
63	I cannot believe how filthy this city is. I live near Columbus and Pima and go out weekly to pick up trash. By the next day, garbage is everywhere again. Wherever you go, regardless of the area of the City there is litter, litter, litter! Palo Verde on the way into the City from the airport is an embarrassment. And, now the medians are not being maintained, we are even uglier!
64	I car pool when I can, but I'd prefer my city had clean, efficient, admired and utilized public transportation, even up in the major streets of the foothills and most certainly out to the airport..
65	I don't know how it could be done, but a beautification project, esp. for an area like Speedway coming east off of I-10
66	I enjoy the chance to be outdoors most of the year. The air is clean, the mountains are beautiful and life is better outdoors.
67	I hate seeing litter everywhere - especially adults throwing their garbage on the streets. I see the on a regular basis how many people are ignorant of general pedestrian street crossing and white cane laws
68	I have been active in my neighborhood ( President for 3 years and currently vice president) Association. I have been unable to generate interest in general improvements in appearances.
69	I have noticed that some of tucsons parks and streets have a fair amount of trash. I think this is important because it can leave a bad impression on visitors, and increase disease.
70	I know a lot of work has been done to the downtown area, and the I-10 also, which I think is awesome! I would like to see some areas central though. Some places look run down and I know there are a lot of privately owned homes and so forth that can't be controlled. I think Tucson has the potential to be a beautiful place with out surroundings and artistic community. I'm not sure the solution, but our town looks run down in some areas, and rich in others. It should be beautiful everywhere.
71	I know it isn't high on our list of priorities, however, I can see the neighborhoods declining as the graffiti problem grows. I carry paints in my car and as soon as I see any vandalism, I cover it up, over and over again. I live in midtown, but the problem is everywhere. Why don't the neighborhoods take care of cleaning up their own areas?
72	I like the sense of expansiveness I get from the desert. It's clean, clear, wide open.
73	I like to live in a clean place and want to see a more positive image of Tucson
74	I live just west of downtown in the area most affected by the planned revitalization. So far, there is a wall and a few up-scale homes that no-one in the neighborhood could ever afford to purchase. There are so many wonderful things that could be happening: downtown as an all pedestrian area with restaurants, theater, music, outlets for traditional native crafts, the Stewart Boot Company (or similar), good art galleries (like Etherton), and trams to connect to all of it plus the Tucson Museum of Art and surrounding historic sites. 'A' Mtn. could be cleaned up and made into a safe place for walking, biking, and site seeing from trams for tourists, families, others who congregate - but no cars and no alcohol or drugs. The land west of the river should not just be another housing development. We need walkways, horse trails, an interactive science center, movie theaters, coffee shop, a Trader Joe's or Sunflower, a pool, a gym, boutique hotel, amenities that appeal to the neighborhood and to tourists alike. I personally resent the increase in my property taxes that was meant to reflect the higher values that Rio Nueve was going to create. I don't want lower taxes, I want Rio Nuevo!!
75	I love the earth and want it to be clean and usable for a long time... by the way, mining can be reasonably sustainable and it is important to the Arizona economy!
76	I think that it crucial that Tucson does not build into our national parks and preserves Tucson's natural beauty. The weather is so great here that being outside is so appealing and it is so important that we have beautiful, clean, and fun parks/facilities to enjoy the outside. I also think that this attracts tourism.
77	I want to keep my school clean
78	I wish it were cleaner -- less air pollution and less litter.
79	I would institue a volunteer corps to clean up the city.
80	I would keep it cleaner
81	I would like to see more of an emphasis on cleaning up the city. Cleaning up graffitti, littering, homeless shantis along the washes. Getting rid of panhandlers. Cleaning up vacant, decaying buildings. Restoring Tucson's treasures not just tearing them down and rebuilding new ones.
82	I've lived in Michigan and Ohio and I always felt safe and the neighborhoods I lived and worked in were always clean. In Tucson, I've had my car broken into, and we have an alarm system at home.
83	I've never lived in a place with more garbage thrown all over. I regularly see people throwing garbage out their vehicle windows. Fine those people and work to make a cleaner place for everyone to live.
84	If the public water supply was cleaner and tasted better we would have less of an impact with plastic bottles
85	Improve Streets - Landscape (Just clear weeds and trash.
86	In Oro Valley there is well-maintained streets and landscaping
87	In all the local parks I've visited, all have been well laid out, clean and provide what I feel to be a safe place for me to exercise outdoors. The people I encounter also add to the experience.
88	In my area of mid-town, near Speedway and Alvernon, there is too much trash and grafitti. some neighbors and businesses seem to ignore it, I try to paint over or rake up, just wish everyone else was personally responsible.
89	In the downtown area and in many of the other streets it is something very observable in our city
90	Increase code enforcement and property clean-up
91	It appears that the people running the County are so busy delivering for their cronies that they can't be bothered to deliver for the citizens. Huckleberry thinks he's the King of Pima County.
92	It could look so much cleaner, feel nicer inside
93	It is clean
94	It is everywhere in Tucson, even in some of the nicest areas. It makes our beautiful city look trashy.
95	It is important for a city to be clean in order for people to live in it.
96	It is our city and we want it to remain clean and pretty and not waste money, resources, things, etc.
97	It is sad to see graffiti everywhere and no one takes care of their homes. Makes the city look blighted.
98	It would be a major improvement if we could get a larger clean-up crew in our washes and highway washes
99	It's always clean and livable in this environment
100	It's as if people have given up on Central Tucson. So many neighborhoods are run down and have to contend with disused buildings and neglected open areas and yards.
101	Its beautifully put together and it educates people about important environmental issues for the sonoran desert
102	Keep clean, why we moved here (Quail Creek resident speaking)
103	Keep it cleaner
104	Keep the City cleaner
105	Keep the environment clean
106	Lack of keeping clean/upgraded
107	Less graffiti
108	Less trash on the roads
109	Less trash on the roadside and desert
110	Like clean wide roads in Tucson
111	Literally clean up the neighborhoods.
112	Living in a clean, safe environment
113	Make it a better appearing area
114	Make it in general cleaner
115	Making downtown brighter and cleaner would bring more visitors and help tourism.
116	Many neighborhoods and streets are dirty. there is trash everywhere. it not only looks ugly but it is not good for the environment.
117	Many of the streets are ugly and lack land scaping.
118	Many parts of the city do not present well to visitors - it looks trashy, unkept, neglected, too much graffitti, etc
119	Many streets have very ugly medians/shoulders/sidewalks with overgrown plants, weeds, garbage and are very bad eyesores. many roads desperately need to be fixed, especially around the airport, thats the first impression many visitors get.
120	More bike paths and better maintanence on exisiting paths.
121	More clean neighborhoods
122	More freeways and better public transportation. Different people ride the SunTran clean and dirty. The buses should offer disposable seat covers and payable entertainment like a plane. More routes too
123	More graffiti abatement
124	More police to help maintain the calm, instead of cutting a vital source.
125	More trash cans
126	More trash pickup along major streets.
127	Need to reduce littering and trash (clean up along roads)
128	Not enough city clean up efforts
129	Okay, maybe this seems superficial, but I don't think it is: what is up with letting our streets, sidewalks and medians look like trash heaps? That says, in symbolism hard to miss, 'we are a trashy city.' What's up with spending money to design nice roads and medians, like River Road, and then letting them go to seed for two years before cleaning them up? Phoenix manages to have beautiful streets. I'm not suggesting the water waste of grassy medians and sidewalk landscaping like Scottsdale, but couldn't we manage some basic desert landscaping that's decently taken care of--the trash picked up (or not thrown out in the first place), and the weeds removed? Couldn't we make a push for keeping our streets and public places free of trash? I think this is more important than it seems, both for how we think about ourselves and our community, and what we invite the outside world to think of us.
130	Oro Valley is clean and thoughtful, not so in Tucson
131	Our city has a relatively clean environment, and I like that we are improving bicycle lanes and public transportation to keep it that way. I like the focus on solar energy and water conservation.
132	Our city landscapes should be our pride and joy, maintained by trained professionals. Pruning needs to be supervised by certified arborists and not conducted by prisoners on work-release. Include more native plants and cherish healthy, mature plants with appropriate maintenance.
133	Our main streets are UGLY!
134	Out of town visitors are often greeted by unpleasant images that reflect violence and lots of gang activity. Many S. Az visitors only see Tucson from the car and what they see is many areas of town is horrific. We must clean it up!
135	People join together to just do it! Some of us just throw things but I've seen many walk over and pick items up to keep the area clean - great!
136	Personal pride. A community's appearance is extremely important. Some part of the Middle East, Turkey, and Central Asia far cleaner than Tucson. We have a very trashy community.
137	Pick up the trash
138	Poorly kept streets and landscaping
139	Poorly maintained properties with a preponderance of junk and refuse devalue neighborhoods, contribute to vermin, vandalism, and crime. Represent a lack of pride and respect.
140	Pride in the City involves maintaining it clean.
141	Public projects, such as road maintenance - government takes forever to respond to construction problems
142	Put efforts into keeping Tucson safe and clean.
143	Quieter, safer, cleaner, etc.
144	Removal/control of weeds & trash.
145	Remove the graffiti
146	Remove trash and persure those who do not maintaain clean homes and busnesses.
147	Rio nuevo,all of it needs to be ended and all the free or super cheap rent for galleries and museums needs to stop and 4th ave needs cleaned up very scary and nasty!!
148	Roads! (county funding state funding) maintenance
149	SO many people do not maintain their yards. Weeds, junked vehicles, mattresses, garbage. ARGH! Why do so many people take not pride in their property. Why do so many landlords (slumlords) get away with not maintaining their property? Why are there not really any consequences to all those code violations we turn in?
150	SaddleBrooke is wonderful. Quiet, clean and active.
151	Seeing older homes in turmoil is depressing. We should clean up the streets
152	Seems that there are not enough trash receptacles to accommodate
153	So we can have our earth clean
154	Some aspects of Tucson need a major makeover. it looks brutal when you arrive from the airport or I-10 for example. For God's sake, can't we cleanup and beautify Speedway from the I-10 to campus, and similarly for Broadway/Congress into downtown. Appearances matter - make a favorable impression.
155	The Oro Valley area - and master plan is what attracts me to the area. I want clean, maintained and safe community. I want services for young and seniors. I want a community that believes in quality.
156	The amount of broken glass along streets and in desert trails is heart breaking. Seems to me as though there are alot of people that would take advantage of bottle refunds, thus decreasing the amount of bottles thrown in the desert.
157	The amount of dust, trash, and debris in certain areas
158	The appearance of the community is important for residents and visitors.
159	The area around the airport and Raytheon should be cleaned up so that more people want to live and work nearby. It is the first thing that people see when flying in, and would give a much better first impression. It would also help to attract more businesses to the industrial area.
160	The city does a great job with landscaping new roads with limited access and beautiful man-made cliffs. Commuting isn't difficult and always beautiful.
161	The city is clean
162	The city is run down, trashy, and filled with thugs.
163	The city looks like a mexico town, dirty, graffitti, weeds, run down, just generally tatered, used and worn
164	The clean sunny mountains and the natural environment
165	The cleanliness of the city
166	The commitment to keep Tucson environmentally clean is important to the current residents. Future residents will be attracted to that condition. The UA and associated research and clean industry will attract environmentally aware residents helping to keep Tucson clean.
167	The communmity is clean
168	The condition of some of our streets are atrocious. I realize we have budget issues, but letting our city become trashy looking and ruining poeple's cars is not going to help us recruit companies and people here. The main older areas of town could use some facelifting and cleanup, which would provide jobs and improve our economy.
169	The constant road and building construction that delays traffic. Needing to beautify the downtown area with things to do.
170	The current administration has run the city off the tracks. We have hard working city employees getting furloughs and layoffs, no pay raises for years, but we have money for a 'modern streetcar', a renovated TCC, and a new elephant pen at the zoo. We have an Arts building being rented for a dollar a year, while people are unable to make their house payments. We have to cut back on police services (no more responding to traffic accidents) but we can afford an assistant city manager at $100K+ a year (and as the former chief of police he should be ashamed).
171	The foothills are lovely as an area. The rest of town could use cleaning up and landscaping.
172	The general environment is clean and varied.
173	The graffiti, the junk/trash along roads/freeways, the weeds (not beautiful Sonoran vegitation but WEEDS) all over the place are in such stark contract to the ugly stuff. It does not fit.
174	The lack of pride in our community shows with dilapidated properties, trash everywhere, graffiti, and rudeness.
175	The poor road conditions, decaying buildings, dead landscapes, and unsightly parking lots and businesses reflect poorly on the City. The City has a very shabby and scruffy appearance.
176	The trash
177	The trash people throwing everywhere either on the street or grabe on the estreet
178	The way streets are all dirty
179	The weather and cleanliness of the area
180	The whole area needs to be cleaned up
181	There are certain areas of town that look like they are falling apart. The Stone and Ft. Lowell area is one example. Iv'e seen large squares of dirt near houses. I wonder why the city can't beautify this? There are some builidings around town that look like they should be condemned. Our poorest people are the ones that live in places like this and it is not fair.
182	There are some amazing people doing great things like the All Soul's Procession. (Sadly there is a lot more apathy there and it can do with a bit of change.) Some parts of Tucson look very run down and dirty, so if we try to improve those things then we can improve the overall quality of life in Tucson
183	There are some parts of town that could probably use some cleaning from littering and such. I can't think of any in particular right now, but I mostly see trash when I am driving and living in a clean, welcoming city is important to me.
184	There aren't many places downtown for young professionals to meet and hangout. There needs to be more clean bars, coffee shops, and stores with extended hours. I think of downtown as a desolate wasteland of public buildings that maintains 'banker's hours'
185	There is too much graffiti and trash along the entry corridors from the airport and from the interstates.
186	There should be incentives and grants to fill in the blanks in neighborhoods. In the neighbor that I grew up in there are now many empty lots. Empty lots drive down property values and chase families and their spendable incomes out of neighborhoods causing blight. We need an urban plan that would reduced the continued building in new areas on the outer edged of the valley. The new master plan should be designed to encourage the repopulation of neighbors. Encourage the cleanup of Tucson. Tucson is filled with trash, broken down cars, homes in poor repair, weeds, poor street lighting. It appears that there is little or no uniformity in the design of buildings or neighborhoods. Much more needs to be done to save water and harness solar energy uniformly among business and homes is a must. The city has the appearance of a hodge podge that nobody has give much thought about. It is as if there has never been the development of a comprehensive, careful, considerate plan for our city.
187	They do not clean them
188	They live in a fantasy world and have no clue about what happens in the street
189	They need to be cleaned up. Trash needs to be taken out, and it should look nicer
190	Third world appearance to companies wanting to relocate.
191	This bonds us and helps keep Tucson safe, clean and strong which can only help us grow.
192	This is important because it's good to live in a safe and clean environment
193	This point benefitst the community as a whole. I personally would enjoy a safer and cleaner Tucson even more than I already do.
194	Too many people litter or allow their trash to blow onto our land. So very sad. : ( I think the garbage trucks are a major part of the problem, just follow one around a few minutes on a windy day or when they are moving along a faster roadway.
195	Too many times the city leaders cause failure in street repairs to force us to vote in more taxes. Get rid of your cell phones, city paid cars, and magazine subscriptions. No new cars for city employees.
196	Too much littering and graffiti is present throughout the community
197	Too often government departments as well as nonprofits adopt an unhelpful 'it's not my job' or 'we're not funded to do that' attitude and even policy. Instead of reacting to every new situation that comes up, our programs need to be proactive in terms of how they serve the community, relying less on a 'complaint' driven activity system, to one where staff identify community needs and design a process that continues to make progress toward a goal. If, for example, our goal is to keep the community cleaner and that involves requiring private property owners to keep their land clean, there should be a routine for at least a brief visual inspection of the entire city (on a rotating basis whether this takes a year, two years, or five). Get away from waiting for citizens to call and report or complain about things (or get discouraged because they don't know where to call) and simply focus on the task at hand and keep working on it. It's not exciting, but the results will show themselves.
198	Town isn't too spread out. The city is relatively clean, low in crime, bike friendly, and neighborhood friendly throughout.
199	Try to clean up some of the industrial area sprawl. perhaps restrict this activity through more deliberate zoning laws
200	Tucson Water should coordinate fixing leaky water valves instead of waiting 6 months after the streets have been repaved and then get ripped up again and patche poorly.
201	Tucson clean cities (including Tucson electric vehicle association)
202	Tucson could become more beautiful if we could clean up some neighborhoods of junk, etc. could be a volunteer effort to help those who need it. Also, let,s keep trash off the sides of the beautiful roadways. I like to see nice things, and I also like to volunteer to help others.
203	Tucson has a great network of trails and bike paths with more being added all the time thanks to the RTA. This makes Tucson a place about people, not just more cars. The next big challenge is how to make this a more pedestrian friendly community. Six and eight lane city streets are not pedestrian friendly and are downright dangerous.
204	Tucson is Trashy, metaphorically, but mostly literally. People don't put their trash in trash bags, so a significant amount falls out of the can and blows around on the street the day after trash day. It seems like no one picks up the trash around their houses and workplaces. People also leave mini-shrines everywhere, then never clean them up when the items burn out, bleach in the sun, or blow away. People throw glass bottles on the streets and dump furniture in alleyways and throw cigarette butts on the ground where I walk my dog.
205	Tucson is a run-down and dirty city. You can't walk a block down the street without stepping over several piles of dog crap. People's yards are cluttered with brush and rubbish and run down fences or graffitied walls. Very few neighborhoods look taken care of. The city streets are really broken up and out-of-date. I generally don't think Tucsonians care much about their city, so they just don't bother to take care of it. It's really sad. I would create harsher penalties for defacing public property and use the funds for beautification. Certainly more emphasis and funding for beautification would be awesome, but I doubt that would ever happen.
206	Tucson is such a trashy town.
207	Tucson needs to look to business and the people that live here to clean up their yards, Parks and old historical building. There is such a need to make Tucson look like a clean and beautiful place to live. First impressions are lasting and when you exsist the Interstate and all you see is trash and unkept houses it does not make for a good impression. This is something that a city could have as a compain for schools, business and the citizen of Tucson and it would show the pride that people have for their city.
208	Tucson's roads are (many of them) in terrible shape. Passing of the RTA helps but there's a lot more to do to maintain the infrastructure, let alone improve it
209	Tucsonans value the desert and the environment in general. They recycle, pick up trash, adopt streets, and use the public parks, especially Mount Lemmon.
210	Ucson is a great place, but it has a reputation of being a bit 'run down.' We visited Tucson a few weeks ago and I was surprised that the streets were so full of litter, houses in various stages of needing repair, business that need to be cleaned up, painted, etc.
211	Ugly streetscape like Broadway, 22nd, and Speedway
212	Underpasses are filthy. There are not enough public trash cans. There are no recycling facilities at apartment complexes.
213	Very clean and comfortable
214	Very nice area, clean and beautiful landscape.
215	We all feel better if the environment is clean. Streets, bus stops, sidewalks, parking lots.
216	We either need cleaner parks or just more of them.
217	We have let our city decay and turn trashy. I do not advocate homogeneity, but I do think convincing/impelling the public to pick up their trash, keep weeds down, plant and maintain landscaped areas, etc. is important. In a wide-open desert area every bit of trash and decay shows.
218	We have trashed this side so long, its a shame.
219	We need to make it a high priority to clean up graffitti.
220	We should be promoting cleaner transportation options
221	Weather - Sunshine for the majority of the year - ability to do outdoor activities such as running and biking on clean, safe paths.
222	Well organized and clean recreational facilities in order to most enjoy Tucson's natural beauty (mountains, desert, etc.)
223	Well-kept street trees
224	When I travel to other cities I often notice how nice their common/public areas are. We don't need large expensive projects neccessarily. Landscaping improvements and simply providing good maintenance on what we have would go a long way.
225	While some areas are nice, such as University Blvd, most of the area within a mile of the campus borders is run down.
226	Why does a city like Albuquerque look like it has way more industry and business than Tucson...same size but everything is nicer and cleaner and their are many bigger business...can poor little Tucson get none and they all go to Phoenix.....
227	Why so much graffiti? Get rid of graffiti -- it is all over the place. In general it makes the city look, for the most part, dirty.