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 Town of Chase

Nominal Group Survey Results

10/01/07

Five members of the Plan Commission and four members of the planning advisory committee participated in a Nominal Group Exercise to identify those issues most important for the town to address in the next several years. Each of their responses is listed below. Each member was given three votes and asked to vote and prioritize the issues. The top issues are listed below.
 

Top 5 Issues

Improve police protection other than Oconto County

Develop more business to reduce traveling and to help with taxes

Develop a separate commercial area along STH 32

Protect remaining farmland

Preserve woodlands and other natural areas such at wetlands and waterways

Score

Issue

4

Improve police protection other than Oconto County

3

Develop more business to reduce traveling and to help with taxes

3

Develop a separate commercial area along STH 32

3

Protect remaining farmland

3

Preserve woodlands and other natural areas such at wetlands and waterways

2

Develop a court system with county or neighboring communities

2

Increase interest in Stone Barn

2

Diverse park and recreation areas, ex. Parks and silence sports such as hiking and birding

1

Develop and enforce ordinances to protect health and environment

1

Increase neighborhood watches

1

Improve fire protection by adding a sub-station in the town

1

More rural residential with lower densities as not to expand sewer district

1

Invite more youth groups to use town facilities

 

Subdivisions should incorporate trail systems

 

Unplanned development in environmentally sensitive areas

 

Green spaces and open areas

 

Housing for older adults

 

Build better roads for community development

 

Subdivisions being built where people cannot walk and roads cannot handle traffic

 

Decreasing number of farms with increasing number of people

 

Government: betters projections equal plans

 

No more quarries

 

Keep businesses small in scale

 

Population is coming on fast

 

Small town, friendly atmosphere

 

Enforce speed limits

 

Consider some sanitary district either w/Pulaski, Krakow, or on our own

 

Encourage activities for kids

 

The Citgo and cheese factory are improvements

 

Improve roads

 

Keep rivers clean

 

Improve outreach information and participation for town residents

 

No strip malls

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