Allandale Survey Results are In

Residents of Allandale are most concerned about trees and greenspace, preserving the feel of the neighborhood, and traffic according to the recently completed Allandale Neighborhood survey. Keeping it affordable, quiet, and fortified with community spirit are some of the characteristics residents said would make it better.

What follows is a summary of the results  prepared by Kerry Kimbrough, Co-Chair, ANA Neighborhood Planning Committee. There were a total of 539 completed surveys submitted by the deadline, 139 of which arrived by mail or were dropped off, and the remaining completed online.

Many thanks to the core survey group who spent quit a bit of time on this project: Kay Newell, Kerry Kimbrough, Ranleigh Hirsh, Steven Zettner, and Tom Linehan. Thanks also go to the ANA Executive Committee for their support and assistance with this effort.

submitted by Kerry Kimbrough

Did you recently complete the Allandale Neighborhood Survey? Are you curious to know how it turned out? Well, the time has come. The Austin Neighborhood Survey is now complete.

The ANA Neighborhood Planning Committee plans a series of reports to present the results of this survey. Here is the first of those reports.

In this report, we show the overall response, across all sections of Allandale, to the primary questions of the survey (click on image to left of question to see graph of responses):

  · What concerns you?

 

· What do you like about Allandale?

· What would improve the future of our neighborhood?

 

· How are you involved with Allandale?

· In which section of Allandale do you live?

In the first three questions - (see survey) , you entered a response to several options at one of four differnet levels (for example, ranging from “Not Concerned” to “Very Concerned”, etc.) As the levels increase, so does the “weight” of your choice --- a “first place” vote carries more weight than a “second place” vote, and so on. So, the results for these questions show the distribution of the total weight of all choices selected by everyone. For example, a value of 5% means 5% of the total weight of all first-, second-, third-, and fourth-place votes that were cast. By definition, the percentages shown for all options add up to 100%.

For the question of “How are you involved with Allandale”, things are a bit different. Here, you could select multiple choices. For example, you might both live and work in the neighborhood. That’s why the total of all the percentages shown for this question exceeds 100%.

What’s next? Stay tuned for further reports that cover the remaining parts of the survey and that show some more detailed analysis of the results.

Regards,

Kerry Kimbrough
Co-Chair, ANA Neighborhood Planning Committee

 

Comments

[Concerned]

Interesting that "better shopping" and "closer to the things I need" were both high on the list of desired changes - especially considering the "purported" residents' opinion of Wal-Mart. I think that we need an unbiased independent survey rather than a self-administered one by the RG4N Nazis before believeing that 70% of us are against Wal-mart