Plan Fort Collins - March 3rd Event Feedback
Final Results (through April 16, 2010) - Responses to "other" ideas and open-ended questions begin on page 8.
1. Warm up: Have you ever lied to you Mother?
Response
Response
Percent
Count
Never
2.9%
2
Only once or twice
7.1%
5
Only once,and I paid for it dearly
4.3%
3
8.6%
6
40.0%
28
20.0%
14
My brother sister made me do it
1.4%
1
Too many times to count
15.7%
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answered question
70
skipped question
3
I was young and candy was
involved
I’d prefer to say an occasional
stretching of the truth
Only when it was in her best
interest
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2. Warm up: What is your favorite futurist movie?
Response
Response
Percent
Count
Avatar
10.0%
7
Sleeper
7.1%
5
The Matrix
18.6%
13
Blade Runner
14.3%
10
Planet of the Apes
2.9%
2
Star Wars
24.3%
17
War of the Worlds
0.0%
0
22.9%
16
answered question
70
skipped question
3
Response
Response
Percent
Count
Futurist movies aren’t really my
thing
3. What is your gender?
Male
61.4%
43
Female
38.6%
27
answered question
70
skipped question
3
2
4. What is your age?
Response
Response
Percent
Count
Under 15
0.0%
0
15‐ 19
1.4%
1
20‐ 34
21.4%
15
35‐ 44
22.9%
16
45‐
‐ 54
30.0%
21
55‐ 64
20.0%
14
65 & better
4.3%
3
answered question
70
skipped question
3
Response
Response
Percent
Count
5. Where do you work?
Private Business
40.0%
28
Government
22.9%
16
Non-profit
4.3%
3
Education
12.9%
9
Student
2.9%
2
Retired
8.6%
6
Elected Official
1.4%
1
Other
4.3%
3
I do not work (not retired)
2.9%
2
answered question
70
skipped question
3
3
6. Where do you live?
NW Fort Collins: North of
Response
Response
Percent
Count
31.4%
22
21.4%
15
20.0%
14
17.1%
12
Northern Colorado region
7.1%
5
Other
2.9%
2
answered question
70
skipped question
3
Drake/West of College
NE Fort Collins: North of
Drake/East of College
SW Fort Collins: South of
Drake/West of College
SE Fort Collins: South of
Drake/East of College
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7. In the future, how much emphasis should the City place on...
More
About the
same
Less
No opinion
Response
Count
Mix/variety of housing types to
meet the needs of a changing
46.0% (29)
34.9% (22)
12.7% (8)
6.3% (4)
63
54.0% (34)
27.0% (17)
15.9% (10)
3.2% (2)
63
37.5% (24)
34.4% (22)
21.9% (14)
6.3% (4)
64
46.9% (30)
46.9% (30)
6.3% (4)
0.0% (0)
64
62.5% (40)
21.9% (14)
14.1% (9)
1.6% (1)
64
65.6% (42)
25.0% (16)
9.4% (6)
0.0% (0)
64
43.8% (28)
42.2% (27)
14.1% (9)
0.0% (0)
64
46.9% (30)
39.1% (25)
14.1% (9)
0.0% (0)
64
31.7% (20)
47.6% (30)
20.6% (13)
0.0% (0)
63
27.0% (17)
60.3% (38)
12.7% (8)
0.0% (0)
63
15.6% (10)
73.4% (47)
10.9% (7)
0.0% (0)
64
29.0% (18)
51.6% (32)
19.4% (12)
0.0% (0)
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population
Attracting high-quality, “clean
industry” jobs
Increasing the density of housing
and jobs along major transportation
corridors (such as Harmony Road
or Timberline)
Maintaining our roads and bridges
Expanded transit service (bus or
other)
Facilities for bicycles and
pedestrians (dedicated lanes,
pathways, sidewalks)
Protecting the environment
Promoting green building practices
that are more energy, material, and
resource efficient
Promoting and supporting arts and
cultural activities
Parks and recreation programs
Community safety, including police
and fire
Community health and wellness
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answered question
64
skipped question
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8. Retaining What's Special: What is the one thing you would like to stay the same in Fort Collins 50 years from
now?
Response
Count
51
answered question
51
skipped question
22
9. Shaping the Future: What is the one thing you would like to be different in Fort Collins 50 years from now?
Response
Count
52
answered question
52
skipped question
21
Response
Response
Percent
Count
10. How did you find out about this event?
Email invitation
28.0%
14
City website
50.0%
25
Facebook or Twitter
2.0%
1
Newspaper or other media
26.0%
13
Other (please specify)
13
answered question
50
skipped question
23
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11. Can we count on you to continue to participate in Plan Fort Collins?
Response
Response
Percent
Count
Yes, online only
28.3%
17
Yes, online and at meetings
48.3%
29
Yes, meetings only
1.7%
1
No
1.7%
1
Not sure
20.0%
12
answered question
60
skipped question
13
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Futurist Polling: Responses to Open-Ended Questions
Final Results through April 16, 2010
8. Retaining What's Special: What is the one thing you would like to stay the
same in Fort Collins 50 years from now?
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The Poudre River, open spaces available for recreation, good jobs and reasonable housing prices.
The University - the culture
A safe and prosperous community
The population!
The feel of Old Town square, foot traffic only shops and night life.
Bike friendly town.
The Old Town area and attractions/festivals.
it's charm
down town
The Rio
Open space and parks
middling size
Open space and commitment to environment
A healthy vibrant old town
retain historic aspects of community
historic downtown architecture
A great downtown
A city with a unique personality that has urban amenities but is close to nature.
Old town
Parks and Recreation available.
Bike paths in order to avoid roads. Hate conflicts with both sides.
Quality of life.
The high quality environment with its large amount of open space.
Vibrancy of the community - opportunity, leading edge
Downtown feel
Bike-friendly, pet-friendly, breweries, Downtown & outdoor dining.
Old Town & environs into surrounding neighborhoods retain their basic character indefinitely.
Sustainable Old Town Business District.
The small town feeling and sense of community.
wide streets, lots of trees, Colorado State University, jobs
small town feel
Nothing. I want to see our Riverfront Improved and brought into the Old Town Footprint,
The friendly community atmosphere. The number one place to live. Ensure nature is included in the community.
Embrace and continue the bicycle and pedestrian friendly culture. This helps people smile at one another,
increases health by being in a happy community with opportunities for exercise, reduces conflicts with neighbors
since we see each other often. Keep Art and quality architecture alive in the community. Allows for a vibrant place
to live. Keep the momentum on the amazing alleys and art on utility boxes. These are gems I stumble upon and
enjoy often.
Strong core downtown - maintaining a small town 'feel' even as the community grows.
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Having the eclectic mix of housing and property sites in town. A horse property next to high density apartment
building.
the level of commitment to the community and volunteer spirit in the community
Medium size community feel
Preservation of wild life & wet lands near & around the metro Ft. Collins area
The number of people living in Fort Collins and the amount of open space in and around Fort Collins.
Bike trails
The amount of parks and recreational opportunities.
Friendly welcoming community that has good amenities but also has a smaller town feel. Continued support of
senior services like Senior Center and Dial a Ride.
A respect and focus on downtown.
Bike and hiking trails
the vibrant downtown as the human scale is now
The magic of Fort Collins: that its people are free of prejudice against persons based on their income, wealth, or
lack thereof.
Quality of Life for all, especially kids and students. Parks and recreations. Bike lanes throughout the city connecting
parks and shops. A lot of bike and hiking trails within 10 miles of the city.
The ability to travel around town via bicycle.
The rural feel of outlying areas in the GMA. The wonderful road system.
Continue to have choices available to all people. Not to allow the City to limit choices about housing or
transportation
Our great parks
9. Shaping the Future: What is the one thing you would like to be different in
Fort Collins 50 years from now?
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A more urban city with a focus on downtown (employment, housing) and the Mason Street Corridor. More choice in
housing types, expanding urban housing, continuing to offer single-family housing, and expanding urban-type single
family options like townhomes.
More High Quality Recreation Centers. More basketball courts for children (shortage).
Less government and lower taxes
Better alternative transportation and better biking options
I really, really, really would love to see a mass transit option from here to Denver. So would the students and all the
business commuters.
Less traffic on College Avenue.
It's great the way it is! Jobs, but not at the expense of pollution.
lack of diversity and education about diversity
trucks are out of the city
The Drunken Monkey
Traffic
no cars
Transportation - improved public transportation in FC and to Denver
More local distributed small retail
more cultural diversity
out of proportion spending on parks, recreation, arts, culture
Regional rail
A centralized city with a high density core that includes pedestrian friendly work, living, entertainment, and shopping
opportunities.
Train by-pass or roads over/under railroad
More bike paths
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Extensive bike paths, offroad to avoid having to ride in traffic.
Fort Collins needs to densify. We have a limited growth area. Think up, not out.
Traffic congestion
Transportation alternatives expanded
Fewer cars, more interactive transportation
Reduce dependence on sales-tax.
More intimate nhoods with individual village-like atmosphere and more self-contained relative to living, working,
shopping, playing. Public infrastructure and constructed indoor environment is highly sustainable with respect to
very long-term durability, net-zero/+, on-site/renewable energy generation, super water conservation, lifelong
symbiotic interrelationship between human-made environments and natural ecosystems,
Better planning of College Road commercial sprawl. Replace empty big box stores with greenspace. Improve
traffic patterns.
More social programs and less police.
less social castes ie environmentalists vs business people
I'd like to see FoCo to be on the forefront of innovation in city planning/design. Right now we are in the middle of the
pack, doing what everybody else is doing but not leading. This is a great community with loads of smart people, but
we need to leave some of our baggage behind & begin to really let our imagination run wild to get outside the box
That we had a planning staff that knew what they were doing and not just attempting to do an end around the
community on important community planning visions like the City Plan.
"I want to see the City start ANNEXING all this Stray Un-Incorporated area around town that is currently UnIncorporated. I want the Richards Lake & Terry Lake area Improved.
To go a step further, the Lake District North of Town has so much to offer the city. Let's annex it into town ASAP!"
Improve upon the already existing quality of the experience while just living here. Make the entire town more like the
downtown experience, street trees, sidewalks to enjoy an evening walk with your family, decentralizing and making
more interesting intriguing community centers so people don't have to go to somewhere else, they are where they
want to be. Realize we need to move away from our current use of the car which needs to happen sooner than later
for environmental and social reasons and provide facilities that focus on the different modes of transportation that
Thomas Frye was suggesting. Incorporate nature in our community more, green roofs, pedestrian gathering places
spread out often and throughout the community. Environmental regulations that address the alarming global
environmental concerns and move the attitude from optional participation to mandatory. Maybe need to guide those
in local government who are not forward thinking to resign. If they are not hearing or supporting keeping FC the
number one place to live and not looking toward the future to make FC what we want it to be these people may not
be the best fit to represent the citizens of FC.
More transportation options - less reliance on private automobiles occupied by one person
Introduction of more roundabouts and other traffic control measures that are not necessarily signals.
I'd like it to be a community that supports all of its citizens, especially those who work low-wage jobs and have
difficulty making ends meet in our community
More right turn lanes, or less of a need for them
Designated charging stations employed with assistants to help people navigate the property (and or) premises
surrounding malls or large retail environments.
Less pollution, especially total emissions of CO2 and smog, and less water consumption, which would include
restoring historical flows in the Poudre River.
More bike trails
More jobs!
Less focus on buying land to prevent development and more focus on good job development to help people who
live in the city find employment.
A growth boundary, an agricultural greenbelt, and a food security plan.
Better transportation options like PRT and or autonomous taxis
more robots!!
For homelessness to be eliminated.
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Get the Rail Tracks Out of Town. It's very dangerous, creating traffic jams and serving nobody any good.
Less traffic lights.
Traffic congestion needs to be mitigated.
Diverse and optional choices. Large homes if one were to choose, small homes if one were to choose. Big yard if
one wanted to have it, or no yard if one wanted it.
A street light on the corner of Kechter and Lady Moon before a teenage driver DIES on his/her way to school at
Fossil Ridge! WE NEED A LIGHT THERE!!!!!!
10. How did you find out about this event? (OTHER)
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Friend
friends
My Dad works for the City and is at the presentation
information received from a city employee
Utility bill insert
Friend
co-worker went, watched it later on tv 14
Channel surfing
current C.O.D member
Sierra club
Television rebroadcast
Saw it on tv.
I work for the Service Unit sponsoring it.
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