Salt Lake City Baby ~ Life in the capital city rates pretty high
by jotor
92% of residents rate their quality of life in SLC high or very high.
By Rosemary Winters
The Salt Lake Tribune
Far from being tax-day protesters, Salt Lakers would rather boost their own property taxes than cut services
to balance the city's budget. And 58 percent say they definitely or probably would vote for a $100 million bond
to build a new public-safety building.
Those are among the findings of a Dan Jones & Associates poll released Thursday by Salt Lake City.
Conducted every two years, the survey queried 707 residents in March and has a margin of error of plus or minus
3.75 percent.
Despite the gloomy economy, most respondents -- 56 percent -- said "things are getting better" for Salt Lake City.
And 92 percent rated their quality of life in the capital as high or very high.
by sometimesong
Residents gave lofty marks to city services: 71 percent said the value they receive for their tax dollar is good or
excellent; 78 percent rated employees' professionalism as high or very high; and 94 percent view the capital as
a clean and well-kept city.
"It's encouraging that city residents seem to be pleased with the quality of life they have in their city and the
services they receive," Becker said. "Of course, that's what we would hope for."
by hannerola
By a paper-thin margin, Salt Lake City voters rejected a $192 million public-safety bond in 2007 that would have
paid for a new cop shop and other police and fire facilities.
The poll shows the latest vision, trimmed to about $100 million, could fare better in 2009 -- if the City Council puts
it on the ballot.
A bond that size would add $58 a year to the property-tax bill on a $250,000 home.
"Under these current economic times we have to have something that is palatable and affordable to the voters,"
Councilman Carlton Christensen said. "It needs to be a facility that will serve us in the long term."
Among the poll's other findings:
» Downtown parking continues to keep away some shoppers.
Forty-five percent said that, in the past 12 months, they had decided against visiting downtown at least once due
to a lack of parking.
» Fewer people say they haven't used a city library in the past year. In 2009, 86 percent of those surveyed said
they had visited a library at least once, up from 79 percent a decade ago.
» More residents are shopping in Sugar House than downtown. Nearly half reported visiting the east-side commercial
center at least a dozen times in the past year, but only 33 percent of respondents had visited downtown that often.
» Relatively few Salt Lakers tee off at city golf course. Nineteen percent had played a course in the past 12 months.
But only 7 percent said they had not been to a city park during the same period.
just minutes from downtown, bike, hike, jog, snow ski, water ski, and on and on...
pictured, immediately above downtown.
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I think leaving the wall would be excellent (not only cuz it looks cool) but it offers some intimacy for the park against that busy corner on 1300 East and 100 South. If they added a small pond in that corner, maybe they could put some sidewalk too along its Wester edge, East of the wall. I know thats been kind of a scary place to walk home from the University since there are no sidewalks there.
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