Home--Livable Communities--Growth Scenarios
The purpose of ONE BAY’s Voice It! campaign was to discover, compile, and detail information from people living and working in the Tampa Bay region to aid policy makers and community leaders in their decision-making on how to protect, promote, and ensure a sustainable, high-quality Tampa Bay region through the upcoming decades of projected growth and development. One goal of ONE BAY is to ensure that everyone who lives in the Tampa Bay region has the opportunity to participate in shaping the region’s vision and ultimate future.
Thank you to everyone for providing feedback and thoughts on the future of the Tampa Bay Region. ONE BAY has been involved in a on-going public input campaign since kicking off Reality Check in May 2007.
From June through October 2008 ONE BAY asked citizens to look at and review the four alternative growth scenarios to realize the impacts and possibilities that different patterns of growth can have on our region.
SCENARIOS
Scenario Comparisons
(2 pages - 4MB)
Download the Complete Scenario Guide
(8 pages - 9MB)
VOICE IT! CAMPAIGN FINDINGS
In October 2008, ONE BAY rolled out the preliminary findings from the Voice It! Campaign. The presentation and executive summary are now available - see below.
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS - Powerpoint from October 31st
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Executive Summary
NEW POLL
- RESIDENTS SOUNDLY REJECT "BUSINESS AS USUAL"
In June 2009, ONE BAY commissioned Mason Dixon Polling to complete a telephonic quantitative survey of 1,100 adult residents of the seven-county Tampa Bay region. Findings of this phone survey included:
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Residents soundly reject “business as usual” when it comes to future growth in the region. A plurality of residents support a scenario for future growth that focuses on protecting water resources (Scenario D), followed by one that emphasizes compact design along transportation corridors to preserve open space (Scenario C).
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Employment, Public Education, Water Availability and Transportation Issues (Traffic or Mass Transit) are considered to be the Tampa Bay region’s most important issues that need to be addressed over the long-term.
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There was strong agreement among local residents that local planners should plan future growth to minimize water demand (89%), that they should give higher priority to protecting water resources than protecting open space (85%), that they should plan future growth around planned communities in order to maximize the amount of protected open space (81%) and that they should try to reduce automobile trips by enhancing rail and bus transit options throughout the Tampa Bay region (80%).
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When looking at a combination of "high importance" and "medium importance" Locating Businesses and Jobs Close to Where Employees Live (85%), Addressing Local Environmental Issues (84%), and Providing a Vision for Land Use Patterns within the Region (84%) also scored high.
This survey of 1,100 adult residents of Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, Hernando, Manatee and Sarasota counties was conducted by telephone from June 1 through June 5, 2009 by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, Inc. of Washington, DC. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
ONE BAY is utilizing all sources of citizen input to create a ONE BAY Scenario and Recommendations for the region to embrace smarter growth principles. These recommendations will be reviewed with key stakeholders in the fall and winter of 2009 to recognize efforts already in progress towards a smarter growth for the region while identifying challenges and obstacles to improving the region. ONE BAY expects to host a community dialogue on implementation in February 2010.