- Desire for services vs. unwillingness/inability to pay
high taxes
- Lobby Springfield
for more school funding
- Lack of alternative ways to reduce costs and raise
revenues
- Preserving residential uses limits sales tax revenue and
causes
higher property taxes
- Educate the community about what they get for their
taxes
- Consider amusement tax
- Preserve sales tax generators like
automobile sales
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- Teardowns: impacts of bigger houses vs. their economic
benefits
- Should
government provide zoning or economic incentives?
- NIMBY - "Not in my backyard" attitudes
- Desire for rental housing but not multiple-family housing
- Rising land values vs. desire for retaining diverse, affordable
housing
- Failure to retain and attract middle-income families who
can afford homes
- Growth
vs. preservation of natural environment and resources
- Effect of regulations
on property values vs. property rights
- Increasing urbanization vs. desire
for retaining diversity
- Environmental and aesthetic preservation vs. property
rights
- Need more information about existing housing and population
diversity
- Teardowns: "gentrification" vs. retaining existing housing
and population
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- Neighborhood
traffic management systems
- Educate residents to show more courtesy to drivers and
pedestrians
- Accidents and safety problems on U.S. 41
- Reduce speed to keep neighborhoods safe vs. providing efficient
traffic circulation
- Providing beach access for all residents vs. neighborhood
concerns
- Provide reasonable
alternatives to automobile use
- Attitude that "someone else" should solve
traffic problems
- Parking for customers, employees, commuters in business
districts
- Identify alternative traffic routes not through neighborhoods
(involve Police and experts)
- Restrictions on construction traffic and trucks vs. needs
of businesses
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- Lack of time for participation by two-income families
- Need more
events like "Talk of the Town"
- Increase opportunities for communication by televising
more commission meetings
- Educate residents about their responsibility to get involved,
especially children
- Residents are unwilling to get involved or are happy with
status quo
- Form of government: city-wide versus district
representation
- More involvement may increase time to reach decisions and
may not resolve conflicts
- Pro-active outreach to involve people in neighborhood planning
efforts
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