The outcomes are in from Los Gatos’ neighborhood survey, exhibiting that whereas most residents ranked high quality of life extremely, they share issues in regards to the city’s development and site visitors congestion.
City workers stated the survey outcomes may assist inform future coverage choices and useful resource allocation based mostly on residents’ priorities.
“The intent of this survey is to seek out the areas that we will do higher, so we’re beginning at place, however as we begin to drill down, you’ll begin to discover whereas now we have a really excessive satisfaction stage general,” assistant city supervisor Arn Andrews stated on the Might 3 city council assembly, the place the outcomes have been introduced. “The neighborhood does have some areas that they need us to consider.”
The city spent roughly $25,000 to have advisor agency ETC Institute ship surveys to a random pattern of homes in Los Gatos in 2021. Workers stated they intend to conduct the survey each two years to measure their progress.
Of the 650 responses, 97.2% stated Los Gatos was both a superb or good place to dwell, in comparison with the nationwide common of 49.7%.
Nonetheless, many residents expressed issues about site visitors congestion, particularly the seaside site visitors that grows over the summer season.
Round 26% stated they have been dissatisfied with the move of site visitors on city streets, and 14% stated they have been very dissatisfied.
“As council is aware of, we’ve been engaged on site visitors move for in regards to the final six or seven years in several kinds,” city supervisor Laurel Prevetti stated. “We’ve invested fairly a bit on seaside site visitors, making an attempt numerous totally different methods. This isn't a solvable drawback, which I do know may be very irritating for our residents.”
Residents additionally negatively ranked inexpensive housing and the expansion of Los Gatos. The city is at the moment planning for the subsequent 20 years of development and eight years of growth via state-mandated processes.
Round 29% of respondents stated they have been dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with entry to high quality housing, and 41% have been dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the provision of enough and inexpensive housing.
Almost half of respondents stated they have been dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with how the city was managing its development.
Residents additionally ranked high quality of police companies and general upkeep of city infrastructure as an important city companies.
Companies which can be the highest precedence to enhance are upkeep of city streets and infrastructure; city Planning, Buildings and Growth companies; and high quality of police companies.
The survey additionally confirmed geographically the place damaging and constructive responses have been coming from.
“One of many attention-grabbing issues about ETC is in addition they present a GIS mapping, so not solely will we get to see the survey outcomes at an mixture stage, however now we get the sense that there are areas of our neighborhood that geographically really feel they’re having a unique expertise than different elements of our neighborhood,” Andrews stated.
A full copy of the findings from the survey will be discovered in town web site.