Citizen Responses

Below is an overall summary of those issues which were identified consistently throughout all of the surveys.

Question #1: What do you enjoy most about living in Symmes Towship?

• Location and convenience to highways, shopping, etc.
• Parks, greenspace, trees and overall beauty
• Safe and quiet neighborhood with nice people
• Good schools
• Low taxes with no earnings tax

Question #2: What, if anything, do you dislike about living in Symmes Township?

• Traffic congestion
• Not enough of a "neighborhood" feel, community identity and a lack of community gathering place (e.g., community center, swimming pool, recreation center, etc.)
• Lack of programs and activities for families and residents
• Lack of sidewalks and other connections
• The need for more beautification, particular in public areas, and along the commercial corridors (ugly signs, lack of landscape and streetscape, street lights)

Question #3: What do you think are the most pressing long-range (10 year) issues facing Symmes Township?

• Traffic and transportation
• Unplanned growth -- too much development
• Quality economic growth
• Maintenance of infrastructure
• Creating a sense of "community"
• Lack of parks and greenspace

Question #4: What do you think are the greatest challenges facing Symmes Township?

• Traffic and transportation
• Managing growth and annexation --do not sell out to developers
• Lack of community identity
• Improving sidewalks/infrastructure (and paying for the improvements)
• Not increasing taxes

Question #5: What do you think are the greatest opportunities for Symmes Township, around which this plan should be built?

• Planned development
• Preservation and expansion of greenspace, parks and general beauty of area
• Creation of sidewalks and bike paths
• Maintaining the beauty and quality of the Township

Question #6: If you could identify only one problem to be solved by the planning effort, what would it be?

• Improve traffic--congestion, safer intersections and traffic light improvements
• Development--regulation on building and sign design, planned/controlled development and less development
• Put in sidewalks and bike paths

Questions #7: If you could identify only one improvement to the community, what would it be?

• Traffic improvements
• More sidewalks and bike paths
• Parks and greenspace
• Development controls
• Community facilities--parks and recreation center