What’s Health Got to Do With

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Community Themes and Strengths Assessment

Public Forum

February 29th, 2012

WSU-TC

What would you do to make the community a better place to live?

More community activities

Ensure competition for smaller businesses, including the smaller hospitals- like KGH and Lourdes

Close streets to cars more often

Educate new mothers about the importance of activity and lifetime sports, not just getting involved in structured sports

Safe bike paths & bike lanes. Sidewalks

Need opera house

A whole foods grocery store

improve walkability. Make sidewalks & walking attractive. Ensure access to health care for poor people

create a network of open spaces and trails

Establish regional priorities adopted by and incorporated into 4-city planning and priority

Incentivize small business somehow. Rents are VERY HIGH in commercial areas. Finish sidewalks-sidewalks to stores from street. Bike racks at service type & restaurant business. Develop stronger aesthetic codes & enforce them ( uptown and central clearwater) Work with landlords

Encourage better neighbors or help improve the neighborhood concept

Stop with fencing everyone in Pasco

a goal would be to get more of the community members involved in the community.

More Community Activities

What one asset in our community is particularly special to you?• Our parks

• The parks and rivers

• Howard Amon Park. I live in a bad neighborhood in Kennewick and I drive to Richland just to go to this park. It is safe and well maintained and attendees are more respectful of public space.

• The friendly neighborhood community feeling- small town friendliness in a bigger city setting.

• Hiking/Biking trails

• Rivershore parks

• the walk throughs around old Spaulding elementary (now Liberty Christian) that makes neighborhood walkable and the Bypass trails

• River front and parks

• the natural environment

• Emerald of Siam for music

• good economy/ job opportunities

• Hillside. Streamside

• Rivershore parks.

• Badger Mountain

• Columbia River

• Safe parks/trails... running and biking

• Open Space

• The parks on the river.

• The parks and the rivers

• the river

• Philanthropy

• Columbia River

Affordable student housing. Better homeless aid. Personal accountability. Mold control in apartments. City Athletic recreation center

I hope outcome is widely publicized. Get people out of their cars!!!!!

for biking to businesses please provide storage lock boxes for small fee so bikes aren't stolen

Economic status greatly effects the way one answers this survey. Efforts need to be made to assess the opinions of the economically disadvantaged. Lots of things look OK when you have money!

There is no substitute for personal responsibility

Takes quite awhile to complete & distracts from presenters. Include more clarifying data re: person completing survey. 99337 is a huge area- answers will differ from center of city to person living in Finley/County

Combine Reach aquatic center and performing arts within walking distance to each other. Shared parking

Community gardens/community kitchens. Ski/snowboard clubs. Intramural sports. I think the poor population is not represented well. This promotes the poor becoming poorer and the rich making things better for themselves. Not on purpose, but because they don't know.

Please share other comments/ideas regarding the Community Health Needs Assessment