Summary of Results from the Town of Chase Community Survey

341 Completed Surveys of 1,130 Surveys Sent Out

September 2007 

1. Age of Respondents

    5    18-25

  43    26-35

  76    36-45

118    46-60

  99     60+ 

2. Resident of the Town of Chase

    6    No response

  39    Landowner

  76    Resident 

Length of Residency

  35    No Response

  26    Less than 2 years

  79    2-5 years

  59    6-10 years

  57    11-20 years

  25    20-30 years

  60    over 30 years 

3. Work within Town of Chase

     5   No response

    31  Yes

  305   No 

4. Type of House

  12    No Response

313    Single Family

    4     Duplex

    0    Apartment

  10    Mobile Home

    2    Other: double wide and wooded land 

5. What types of additional housing do you feel are needed within the Town?

 161   No More Needed

     7   Mobile Home

     7   Apartments

 127   Single Family

   13   Condominiums

   43   Elderly Housing

   15   Duplexes

   12   Low Income Housing

     5   Other

Additional Housing Comments:

·        Really need elderly housing

·        Low income housing breeds problems

·        Day care

·        No multi family housing

·        Churches

·        No mobile homes

6A. Community Services

Comments on Community Services  

•  moved from Suamico to get away from water/sewer excessive tax spending
•  good school district and good police presence
•  we enjoy our current well water
•  stay country setting
•  keep the city out of the country
•  MORE POLICE PATROL - Too many people speeding & vandalizing!!
•  would like rural setting with minimal taxes.
•  stay with private wells & septic systems
•  future water/sewer hook ups
•  Chase Rd. needs to be widened or Broyln Rd needs to be main road between 41 and Pulaski.
•  We pay high taxes then have to pay our own sewer, water, garbage pickup
•  this is country living not city
•  close enough to Pulaski or Howard- like country scenic view
•  need fire/rescue station
•  not needed people have wells, mounds
•  no recreation schools are available
•  no business in residential
•  current refuse collection is very expensive
•  park
•  no more building of schools
•  Needs of the Town are meet.  Don't bring city to the country.
•  yes, refuse/recycling-at no cost. Education is important, but no additional schools
•  We are currently taxed to death on education
•  bottom 6 not marked because not spelled out-such as more police
•  crime is out of control with all the housing

6B. Housing Development

Comments on Housing Development

•  I love the county…wide open fields and woods.
•  need 40 acres to build on
•  keep it country-love farmland/woods
•  No Mobile Homes
•  Chase should be kept for single family property owners!
•  Apartments should not be mixed in single family development
•  need to increase residential lot size
•  Chase becoming a Howard type setting soon
•  leave the country -country
•  Destroys areas for wildlife.
•  No low income
•  Limit or exclude apartments, duplexes, mobile homes.  Will bring residents who may not care
   about the area.
•  10 acres or more for houses
•  control house building in middle of farm fields, an extremely poor use of land.
•  Were losing our country  landscape fast
•  we are not in the city
•  no more duplexes or apartments
•  without public trans. Low-income housing not need
•  Single Family only
•  Keep thing mainly single family housing no low income or multi
•  Rehab & Clean up of some older/existing properties-junk in yards
•  Enjoy the quiet from larger communities
•  elderly bring tax dollars without kids
•  limit to single-family residences
•  Control growth.
•  no more subdivisions
•  Control growth to not strain public resources.
•  no apartments, mobile homes, low-income or rehab from sex predators.
•  one's not needed, less mobile homes unless in woods bring down value of homes
•  keep chase the way it is
•  keep country setting, too many homes being built. Larger lots
•  no apt., mobile home, low income housing.
•  too many built and not sold
•  no more mobile homes
•  please keep our town small-it's already growing too fast
•  we moved here to be in rural area
•  no opinion
•  nothing wrong with what we have now

6C. Commercial/Industrial

Comments on Commercial/Industrial

•  none
•  grocery store
•  none
•  none needed
•  video store, pharmacy
•  more restaurants
•  none
•  Pulaski & GB close by, not really needed
•  Video Store, YMCA
•  none
•  None
•  none
•  None
•  None
•  grocery
•  grocery
•  enough already
•  none
•  Grocery Store
•  grocery box discount
•  Festival Foods 41 and S.
•  grocery, clothes
•  grocery store
•  Grocery and Wal-Mart
•  clothing
•  none-don't need here
•  grocery pharmacy
•  Eating (Diners)
•  clothing stores
•  not in Town of chase
•  Gas Stations
•  groceries
•  Homes only
•  Too many shops everywhere!!
•  grocery store
•  grocery
•  pharmacy-like Walgreens
•  Target, Kohl’s, anything
•  general store type
•  none
•  Grocery store - Wal-Mart.  No more quarries - We have enough
•  grocery, dept, general
•  none
•  None
•  Grocery
•  none needed
•  dept store, mini-fleet farm
•  none 
•  grocery like Family Dollar Tree
•  keep commercial to Pulaski and Green Bay
•  Green Bay has them all - would not work in rural area.
•  Pulaski serves all our needs - don't need more in the town.
•  gas, office, supper clubs, restaurant, bar and grills.
•  department store
•  None
•  none necessary
•  small central retail
•  none
•  want the country to stay
•  no open quarries, should have berms
•  Pharmacy, Food

6D. Recreation

Comments on Recreation  

•  Swimming area
•  ATV access/trails?
•  rural area-keep it that way
•  We like spending time outdoors and having recreational activities is very important to us
•  Rather see recreational development than housing or industrial
•  focus on all recreational aspects of development for Chase
•  Not hunting areas - Refuge areas
•  New Zoo close. Chase park for families. Town hall great rental
•  keep taxes low Suamico and Pulaski have enough parks and trails
•  Need to preserve Wilderness
•  ATV trails would be nice
•  We need tennis courts
•  walking/biking trails
•  fishing holes
•  biking trails or biking area along side of roadways
•  four wheeler trails.
•  no more snowmobile trails, walk not ride
•  Zoo very close. No need for more parks!!! The country is a park view. I like it the way it is!!!
   That’s why we moved here.
•  Hunting land and shooting areas
•  need non-motorized rec. areas
•  ATV trails also.
•  No snowmobile trails - we don't get enough snow - ATV trail would be more useful
•  Four wheeler trails instead of or in addition to snowmobile trails.  Adequate snow is infrequent.
•  Snowmobiles off private land
•  more trails for 4 wheels
•  people can develop their own wildlife areas
•  Trails and wildlife areas are low cost features
•   bike/walking paths
•  ATV trails
•  Keep snowmobiler's on trails only.  Not in person’s front yard
•  ATV Trails
•  horse & ATV trails
•  safe walking, ponds, family centered places, nice park 
•  Widen Brown County Line & S. Chase to include a walking/biking lane.  (continued below)
•  Excessive vehicles make walking on roads dangerous.  Driving to Mountain Bay Trail is ridiculous
   & takes gas
•  same as "B"

6E. Health and Social Services

Comments on Health and Social Services (Question 6E) 

•  health care is going to be the #1 priority-in near future
•  Howard has enough facilities
•  Pulaski is close enough
•  Life for elderly is to stay in their homes
•  Very near facilities-no need for any out here!!
•  Need an immediate medical clinic
•  Young families appear to be most prevalent.
•  Build a nursing home
•  Aren't there taken care of by the County?
•  Pulaski and Green Bay close enough
•  No new programs.  What we have in surrounding areas sufficient.
•  There are enough programs available now
•  Seniors were back bone, encourage facilities to keep them.
•  Urgent/ER care at existing facilities
•  911 calls are efficient and good.
•  Elderly alone

6F. Transportation

Comments on Transportation  

•  Plan for increased traffic-no need to construct now
•  How come it took over 3 months for the Cty S project? Wasted management
•  Turning lanes on Cty C
•  Current construction on Cty S HORRIBLE 4+mths & not done
•  Better street maintenance is needed and specific maintenance program needed
•  Not enough traffic control
•  Eliminate new homes
•  More enforcement of current speed limits. Its 45 by our house. People go by at least 60!
•  No more roads needed.
•  Drive too fast on rural roads-danger to pedestrians
•  Repair existing roads
•  Truck routes should be signed
•  We need a dead end sign on our road (Rymer Court) and a speed limit sign on Hilbert.  Cars go
    way too fast
•  No more roads needed.
•  Brown Rd. between Pulaski and 41 should be a priority.
•  Reduce speed on truck traffic on Yurek Rd -25mph residential area
•  County S and C do not need to be semi training routes.
•  Work with county for roundabouts.
•  Small town hope it stays quiet
•  You do a fine job already
•  Need street lights at intersections. Need end of road signs paint center lines on roads
•  No new cul-de-sacs. All roads should connect whenever possible
•  Too many dead ends.
•  Quarry traffic out of control, poor road repair by town
•  Taxes and road maintenance and plowing does not improve.
•  It takes forever when the County works on roads.  They are paid hourly.
•  Too many speeders on Schwartz Rd.
•  Inform people of what is being done-advertise, post cards
•  Clean up intersections of gravel
•  Stop the building and we won't need new roads, and therefore save money.
•  Snow plow earlier
•  Bike path's
•  Maintain the ones already here.
•  Need 4way stop corner Cty C & S. Chase Rd
•  Turn-a-bouts work nice.
•  Brown county road needs yellow lines.
•  Road are out of control
•  Maps not updated of area
•  For roads in bad shape, should be repaired, which are many

6G. Zoning

Comments on Zoning  

•  Min acreage for new construction
•  Control amount of junk in yards
•  Moved here to get away from having too many ordinances
•  Same answer as D.  If that is the case, zoning is more important to us.
•  Ensure covenants for subdivisions enforced as well as attention to unsightly housing problems
   needed
•  Revisit ordinances
•  Keep out residential growth no need to change zoning
•  No more mobile homes allowed.  Try to develop like Howard.
•  Keep it simple
•  Some areas are an absolute mess as far as zoning is concerned.
•  This is country, people move out of city for more freedom
•  Keep zoning as a farming area!!!
•  Moved here to get away from excessive ordinances
•  Clean up yards-cars & garbage
•  No building permit for decks
•  Natural resources through smart planning
•  Put the zoning on the county board
•  Limit business within residential subdivisions / developments.
•  No more quarries
•  The counties Zoning is strict enough, just better enforcement
•  Town/County zoning laws should consider covenants so residents do not need to pay lawyers to
   enforce them.
•  Need noise ordinances
•  More specific ordinances, more detailed home inspector, more info online, lower taxes, people
   need to protest
•  We have enough ordinances
•  Grandfather clause new ordinance
•  The Town of Chase Board has done a good job
•  Why do you have to have 2 acres of land to have a horse.  We have over an acre and a half.
•  Development of new ordinances depends on the ordinance
•  Better enforcement on junk piles, vehicles in yards
•  Junk cars should not be allowed
•  Stop patch work building in township.
•  We need less government
•  Keep rural
•  Too late not to try and fix the overdeveloped mess
•  Town and country co-operative

6H. Natural Resource Protection

Comments on Natural Resource Protection

•  Protect farmland and wildlife-preserve country feel
•  Preserve farmland-5 acre lots
•  Farm land is disappearing
•  This is the reason for moving to Chase
•  Land is beautiful just as is
•  No more development.
•  Keep our nature country environment
•  Stay country
•  Water table pollution from farm waste
•  We picked this are due to the rural nature
•  I love nature so to in sure protection for that I'm interested!
•  Control by DNR
•  Water is a basic human need, we must protect it
•  Think of future
•  Very important
•  Run off from lawns into river's
•  Keep DNR out EPA-USDA
•  Control development to maintain our natural resources
•  Turning lanes on hwy 32
•  I think this a very important area
•  Inform the public about buildable and non buildable land
•  We need to preserve what we have left
•  Protect natural resources
•  It's too late to try and preserve these lands, they are already developed to no use
•  No food sources

7. What problems are there in the town that should be given immediate attention?

Most Common General Responses:

·      Road Maintenance (snow removal, signage, guard rails, sweeping, patching, width/shoulders, ditches, marking, brush removal, weight limits)

·    Distance for fire protection

·    Code enforcement-land uses, junk, animals, deterioration of housing

·    Speed limits

·    Subdivisions-size of parcels and the general number being built

·    Lack of parks, trails, and recreation

·    Recycling and waste disposal

·    Off-road vehicles on roadways

·    Communication-meetings, newsletter 

8. What types of industry/commercial development should or should not locate in the town?

Most Common General Responses:

            Should Have:

→    Grocery

→    Retail

→    Restaurants

→    Service (car repair, salon)

→    Reception hall

→    Home-based businesses

→    Light manufacturing

→    Offices

→    Supportive agriculture

→    Alternative energy

Should Not Have:

→    None

→    Mega-farms

→    Quarries

→    Any large industry

→    Major water users (canning)

→    Bars

→    Casinos

→    Landfills and salvage yards

→    Hazardous materials 

9. List any existing or potential concerns for commercial or industrial development.

Most Common General Responses:

•  Ruin nature of the town
•  Draw of the town is the lack of commercial and industrial development
•  Threats to natural resources-water quantity and quality, noise, loss of greenspace
•  Impact on infrastructure (roads) and the need for added infrastructure (water/sewer)
•  Increase of noise
•  Ok if properly located and maintained properties
•  None---Green Bay is close enough for jobs

10. List any attractions which you have seen in other communities the size of the Town of Chase which you would like to see here.

Most Common General Responses:

·        Parks for the entire family

·        Ball fields

·        Bike and walking trails maintained year-round

·        Banquet/wedding hall

·        Outdoor theater

·        YMCA

·        Swimming area and water park

·        Golf course

·        Heritage/historical center with Stone Barn

·        Community center

·        None x 24 of 120 responses 

11. What types of recreational facilities/improvements are needed in the Town?

·        Horse riding trail

·        Walking and biking

·        ATV trails

·        Baseball diamond

·        Lighted soccer field

·        Tennis courts

·        Family oriented parks (equipment, picnic, dogs)

·        Golf course

·        None x 32 of 150 responses 

12. What type of development should or should not take place along the rivers?

Most Common General Responses:

            Should Have

→    Camping and trails (hiking, biking, nature)

→    Parks

→    Public access

→    Single family houses

→    Fishing areas

→    None x 26 of 119 responses

Should Not Have

→    Industrial, commercial, residential

→    Leave as is/none x  19 of 134 responses

→    Land fill

→    Subdivisions

→    Infrastructure (roads and bridges)

→    Quarries 

13. How do you feel the Town of Chase should develop?

  26    No Response

  13    Commercial/Industrial Community

  34    Residential Area

 257   Small ‘home-town” Community (similar to existing conditions)

  11    Other:

·        Wide open county - stay small and quiet

·        But be careful with zoning and be careful with zoning to control what we get
    in the town.

·        Residential with commercial.  Make it look nice.

·        Preserve farm land

·        We came here to get away from development

·        Maintain 1.5 acre minimum lot size

·        Need a balance of all the above

·        Maintain farms/green space as much as possible

·        Leave as is

·        A mix of commercial & "home-town"

·        Rural community min. of 5 acres per house

·        Conservation

·        Preserve AG & natural areas should be #1

·        Small light industrial jobs needed

·        Leave as is, no development

14. The following list includes activities that have a direct effect on the development of the Town of Chase? They are ranked in order of importance.

Comments:

·        Repave roads

·        Conserve farmland

·        Keep it small town

·        Roads

·        Snowmobiling

·        Forcing development will not work.

·        Farming development

·        Fire & Rescue Services

·        Chase road improvement

·        Keep it small quiet, farming

·        Education

·        Nothing

·        Small town – rural

·        Snow removal

·        Web site updates-meetings, agenda, notes, housing codes

·        Animal control

·        Maintain country setting

·        Keep as is

·        Senior services

·        Litter in ditches

·        Develop park at old barn

·        Farm lands

·        None

·        Leave it rural

·        I would like to use the 1 more then once

·        Home business vs. large industry

·        Parks

·        Incidental pollution of air and water

·        Shopping mall 

15. What do you like most about living in the Town of Chase? (check all that apply)

Comments about what you like most about the Town of Chase:

·        Quietness

·        Getting crowded hard to find land to rent for farm

·        Lack of job opportunities

·        Recycle center

·        Farming

·        Not close enough to fire & rescue services

·        scenery, farming

·        Low taxes

·        Don't need commercial tourism

·        Growing too fast, planning homes instead of food

·        Size-small and already growing to fast

·        Caring nature of surrounding community and co-operation

·        People bickering

·        City dwellers trying to boss current farming

16. What do people like least about living in the Town of Chase?

       Comments about what you like least about the Town of Chase:

·        Too many homes and subdivisions

·        Go to other communities for goods and services

·        Taxes too high

·        Lack of law enforcement

·        Lack of parks

·        Growing too fast and getting away from country living

·        Quarries scattered throughout town

·        Loss of farmland

·        Smells

·        Roads

·        Lack of property maintenance