we have a spike in the five to fourteen school age children population compared to all the others we haven't decided deficit if you will of the twenty four year  population and then again in the forty to fifty year could be for your population on a higher percentage within the community compared to the others probably no surprise to anyone peters  is a pretty affluent community but i'm looking at it in comparison with all the others the median income in the media and you come in the united states is fifty one thousand four hundred twenty five model that says you should have this percentage of commercial on this percentage of industrial or anything like that but we didn't want to look at the house the minutes in the community and made some comparisons with those other areas and typically what we see is for example in the united states about seventy four percent of all households are in single family homes and roughly twenty six percent township we have just under ninety percent of the households are single family detached and just over two percent are apartments or condominium so the housing value again  the national median as of two thousand and ten was one hundred eighty five thousand arms and in peter's township were one hundred thousand dollars higher than the national medium housing you know hosing do township and how it's used and you can see that the on the yellow piece of the pie there is single family homes and that accounts for fifty three percent of all   taking that sixty percent of that is developed we want the pie down to the lower rank and that's an indication of how developed when it's been used and they are looking at eighty seven percent a small group discussions with a variety of different groups of residents developers realtors public officials and so on we get our community why opinion survey look at some of the information we had developed and provide input on what they white give and don't want in all of that in one there were some common themes and and certainly among the things that people re township the housing market is certainly healthy this community and much of this region has been very fortunate in not having experienced the recession to the depths most of the the rest of the country experience so the housing market is stayed pretty healthy values have actually gone up or rather than declined is as they have been you know other parts of the country and people almost unanimously rated  wife and puce township as excellent they're very happy to live here but the other side where he can is looking at some of the issues the challenges things people would like to see improved upon and in some areas of the township but many people feel that the community still is not walkable limited housing options going back to one of the earlier chards most of the housing is there really isn't a broad awareness that this in fact is town center the need for office space in the community lot of concern about what we call the same mess township that it's just basically a bedroom community with single family homes concerned about activity for teens transit service on all the business for the certainly the vast and choose not to drive all the way over to go nineteen and instead go elsewhere to do their shopping on and they're not the last thing to need for usable open space we resist change change is forced upon us in one way or the other so i wanted to just give you a very quick primer on the evolution of communities and development beginning with cities was developed there was more mobility people started to look for alternatives to the city lifestyle so they looked at things white wall where can i feel more secure where can i have in areas get away from overcrowding where can i have a little piece of market where our schools are going to be better than what we have here where can i experience been involved in as firm over the years we do community opinion surveys and it's always interesting to me to hear a response that we moved out of here to get away from overcrowding within walking distance and there's others of us connect there between enjoying their country suburban rural lifestyle but still wanting all the conveniences of the city life good that people moved away from there are a number of trends that we think you should be aware of that are going on right now you're aware of many of them that will have an impact on this community in every community is as we go forward on a number of demographic trends those of child rearing nature marriage later than any time in history i've read from my own experience thirty two daughters in their  decline single households are no longer seen as a temporary situation my can think back in one when i was in high school and college you know if you were married by your weight twenties whoa what's wrong with you you know  like most people that i graduated high school from had a goal of hey i'm going to go to college i'm going to get married the reason a family i'm going to we're going to a man's house that isn't necessarily the case he were were definitely seen a shift in those attitudes and there's no longer that stigma attached to people who do choose to live a single life average age is increasing certainly no surprise to be boomer generation is there and there is each one will and we're living longer and we're having an impact on the population profile as well as the separate from one another now the trend is to provide for mixed uses in some cases to create more vibrant areas to allow people to live and work in the same area and a lot of people are being forced out of their from unities where they want to work for a smaller home or condo or apartment or retirement home or what have you so in many cases developers and community these are looking at aging in place concepts where somebody can we're going to smaller single family home and then if need be move on retail trends in the last ten years retail base to three times faster than the population grew up in that same period the armored square footage the average retail sales per square foot did not increase at all and there are a lot of reasons for that our market consultants here when we have our panel discussion we can get into that more but i just think about how many of you shop online  s as an alternative to to running to the wall running on to group nineteen and then the last point there is on a couple of years ago time magazine ran a feature story on ten ideas changing the world right now number two on that list was recycling the suburbs recognizing that in most cases the model that suburbs have grown by is no longer sessions to morrow to help us develop some scenarios for future growth in the community and just some questions that you are to be thinking about as we proceed to hire you to morrow how can we grow and change without losing what we value i think that's also big concern that we have some great things it is how much it doesn't mean we're going to get rid of those things and go off in a new direction that isn't necessarily the case should peters adapt or should we just continue as as we have been if conditions remain the same when we just get up and move someplace else and we see that  how many of you have lived here less than five years and you can get on so when things are no longer the way you want to come maybe there's a tendency to say well i'll just go for their overall good one other community so that something that can the challenges be overcome certainly you have challenges we think there are solutions to those challenges we talk about some of those tonight and ask