Surveys on surveys on surveys

Sorry if this made it on here already, but I just completed the Pedestrian Safety Survey and thought others might be interested.

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Hello my fellow DTRalieghites,

Is anyone participating in one of these:

https://www.downtownraleigh.org/dra-programs/downtown-rundown

Want to but won’t be in town.

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The city is looking for feedback on the future of Capital Boulevard North .

What should Capital Boulevard look like in the future? We would love to hear your thoughts!

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Not sure how they think they’re going to create a walkable neighborhood or enjoyable pedestrian experience with a 10-lane grade-separated highway slicing down the middle of it…I commented that they need to think about cap parks or selling air rights over the Capital Blvd. ROW.

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Adding this here as well as the Bike Lane thread:

If you weren’t able to make yesterday’s open house at the Dillon you can provide feedback on the protected bike lane design alternatives at this link: https://publicinput.com/a234

Survey is open through 2/3/2020.

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I’m plopping this here:

Residential Infill Survey Results

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Results are a little disheartening, and it’s weird that there were fewer potential benefits listed (4) as compared to downsides (12) for residents to rank – it almost seems to imply to the survey-take that there are de facto more downsides. They didn’t even list that increasing supply could keep housing from getting more expensive, but they did list increased prices under downsides/concerns??? That almost seems intentional.

Around here the de facto is still to increase supply, but to do so on the outskirts. And buy you a new mid size SUV to get you to the other far flung corners of the Triangle.

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GoRaleigh looking for feedback on Custom Shelter Design for bus stops.

https://goraleigh.org/news/goraleigh-needs-public-input-custom-shelter-design

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Done! Also requested a shelter at the bus stop I use, though I doubt it will happen because it’s not a popular stop.

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This is an interesting result:

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Yeah I thought that was interesting too, considering how frequently we hear about the likes of, for example, Oakwood residents opposing even minor changes to any houses in the neighborhood due to aesthetics/character/history. A number of the results in the survey make me question how representative these surverys really are of Raleighites in general. They stated that Raleighites’ opinions are heavily polarized on this issue, but I wonder if you polled random people walking around on the street on any given Saturday afternoon if most peoples’ opinion wouldn’t simply be “I guess I don’t really know/care” which I would expect to count as an “I’m not concerned about the effects of infill development”. We know that they aren’t taken by a random selection of the population, and the links to these surveys are passed around by those with strong opinions to others with strong opinions. But for all that I also don’t know if the decision-makers actually care whether or not they are getting a representative sample so much as they care to be aware of what sort of criticisms they will face if they try to do anything, since they’re going to have to contend with the loud people if they do. Also, not that I’m implying that this is going on, but one could really pretty much get whatever result they wanted to with one of these if they were to quietly publish a survey and make casual mention of it’s existence to a few interested people who support whichever result you were looking for.

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Have an opinion on Raleigh’s First Friday events? There’s a survey for that.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FirstFridayRal2019

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Please take this survey about community engagement!

How Do You Want to Engage?

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Help Decide How the City Spends Money in FY 2021

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/fy21survey

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A new low, all these surveys need to be done away with. This surveys are holding us back not moving things forward, we elected the people to solve the problems on our own not use us we need results not time.

Nope. We elect representatives to represent us, we still need to use our voice to tell them how best to represent us…

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Yeah but one or two surveys on the specific issue like BRT how long you want the route, not survey because of placing of a stop or amenities (no one care about) and stuff they know they can figure out. 1 or 2 is good not 7 to 8. And one more thing personally I don’t think there needs to be surveys on buildings they don’t affect you building a 40-story downtown is not a big deal no survey should be on that, especially if it’s a win-win for both the council and the developer.

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