During the Nov. 2nd committee session, Mayor
Sutherland said the Master Plan surveys were mailed from the Cuyahoga County
Planning Commission around Oct. 23rd. Council, administration and residents
totaled around 20 in the room and no one could say they had received one.
Sutherland said they probably weren’t mailed first class and there was a lot of
election material coming through the mail too. She said they are hoping to have
the surveys returned by Nov. 30th and expect 30% to be returned.
Everyone is curious about the questions in the current
survey for the Master Plan. Alas, I do not have those but I have listed the
questions from the 1999 quality of life survey that was mailed to 500
residents. Approximately half of those surveys were returned. I have looked at
recent (2014) surveys for other cities, and the questions, although tailored to
individual cities, are similar to the questions from 16 years ago. I would have
loved to tell you the answers but it was too much for me to write/copy/paste. I
encourage you to go to the 1999 Master Plan and read the answers. You have to
scroll down to Appendices A.3 – about 200 pages. It is worth a read.
1. How would you rate the following services? EMS, police,
fire, leaf pick up, garbage, snow removal, library services, public
transportation, street lighting, sidewalk, roads.
2. What types of improvements or programs would you like to
see instituted to make your neighborhood more desirable?
3. Please rate the following issues based on your home and
neighborhood: Access to highway, safety, fire and police, convenience of
shopping, rating of neighbors and appearance of neighborhoods.
4. Rate recreation services
5. Recreation options
6. Where do you purchase the following goods or services?
7. For those items purchased outside of Bay Village, in
which communities do you shop?
8. What additional retail and service establishments would
you like to see in Bay Village?
9. What improvements to the Bay Village Commercial Districts
could be made to make them more attractive for shopping?
10. In which city do you work?
11. How often do you use RTA buses or rapid transit?
12. If you use RTA buses or rapid transit, what type of
trips do you use RTA service for?
13. Please indicate which of the following would encourage
you to use RTA’s services more frequently.
14. Please rate how important you feel it is for the City of
Bay Village to provide the following services with respect to tree lawn trees.
15. Are you, or anyone you know, interested in elderly
housing within Bay Village? If so, what types of housing would be of interest?
16. 17. 18. 19. How many years have you lived in Bay, how
many people in your household, why did you move to Bay? Are you considering
moving within the next 5 years? If so, why?
20. Would you support the development of alternative types
of housing such as cluster homes, condominiums or townhouses, in Bay Village?
21. What do you consider Bay Village’s strengths and
weaknesses?