Controlling growth was rated very important or important by 82.8 percent of residents. Residents gave their neighborhoods good marks, with 43 percent Calling them very good and 44 percent good. Quality is the most important factor in choosing a neighborhood, residents said, followed by cost of housing, distance from work or school, and proximity to shopping, friends and family. Ten percent each said their neighborhoods were better or worse than they had been. Thirteen percent said that their neighborhoods were not too safe, and 6 percent said their neighborhoods were not safe.
Residents see the downtown area as more dangerous after dark than their own neighborhoods.
Some 19 percent said the area was not safe at all. Residents were mixed over whether speeding was a problem in their neighborhood, with 47 percent saying it was a great problem or somewhat of a problem, and 54.5 saying it was a minor problem or no problem at all.