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Top 5 Community Characteristics |
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What do you value most about Hopkinton? |
Value Most Code (1st) |
Value Most Code
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Value Most Code
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Special Note re: Value? [Y] |
What would most like to see changed? |
See Changed Code (1st) |
See Changed Code
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See Changed Code
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Special Note re: Change? [Y] |
Add Spac |
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Hist |
Rural
Char |
Natur
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Traff |
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Grow More |
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Grow Less |
Com
Grow More |
Com
Grow Less |
School |
Road
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Tax Incr |
Other |
Comm-ents
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More Bus |
More Indus |
Raise taxes |
Chg Priorit |
Incr User fees |
Other |
Comm-ents Y/N? |
Further Comments About Community
Characteristics |
Further Comments About
"Things Willing to Consider" |
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Open space, low congestion, low
crime rate |
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Stop feeing me to death, when I
say not to a overide it means no--see sheet |
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Quiet neighborhoods |
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More commercial & industrial
growth |
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Quiet rural environment |
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Town center more developed |
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Beautiful setting |
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Downtown imps to attract better
variety shops, businesses & restaurants |
DR |
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Improve tax base with smart
commercial growth |
Lower expenditures, eg school
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| 5 |
Open land |
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Smarter spending on thigs like
schools |
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rural character, people,
everything |
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Exec,. Sec'y to town manager |
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open space, nice little town |
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Have few more little shops in
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School system |
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Safe place to raise kids |
QL |
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Better library, full day
kindergarten, more educational $$ |
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Safe community rural feel to the
town |
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Spruce up main st. See sheet for examples |
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Small town atmosphere, open
space, state park nearby |
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Selectmen to mayor format of
gov't |
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Open spaces + downtown, if it
were well planned |
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The character of downtown - it's
so hodgepodge |
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Small town atmosphere, open
space, state park nearby |
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More business |
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My home |
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Less change |
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The wrong people are spending
our tax dollar and making decisions |
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Bedroom community, schools |
FOT |
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Lower taxes |
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The clean separation of industry
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Some (not too much) downtown
commercial development |
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Small township |
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Less open space |
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schools |
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Center of town update |
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Retail Space in town |
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Topen space (parks + trails) and
town's center plaza |
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More of a down town presence to
bring local residences together & attract them to use. |
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Ruralness |
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Less building |
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My family has been in town for
the past 80 years. The town has
changed immensly the growth should stop. |
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Small town persona |
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Rate of growth should slow down |
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Smallness |
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No low cost housing |
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School system |
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Sidewalks on Elm St. |
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Small town feel, minimal
commerce |
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Reduction of traffic through
town, especially on West Main St. |
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Schools, community importance |
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Traffic Mgmt |
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Land/no traffic |
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Less development |
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Location/Housing |
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More tax base business |
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Schools, open space |
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Less development |
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Rural char. |
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Restrict rampant growth |
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Lower taxes |
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My home |
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No more building |
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School system |
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Property taxes decreased |
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is not so much a priority as it is a necessity for my #1 priority |
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Quaint, quiet town |
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The "good old boy"
network of the town council |
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sense of community, good balance
between services and taxes, but need to expand commercial base |
PF |
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More emphasis on generating
revenues to reduce tax impact |
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New concepts wike what is being
planned in Upton would seem to address severa of these points if well done |
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rural setting |
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Downtown area, I would like to
see more antiqwue type structures with retail |
DR |
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Beautify downtown |
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Community |
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Exclusivity, schools especially
special ed |
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Small town |
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Selectmen and their agendas |
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Change zoning requirements for
new construction, increase lot requirements |
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Small town feel, rural
character, but still having community resources |
FOT |
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More for teens to do (I.e.
community center), more for seniors |
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Quiet, safe, well-maintained
town with excellent schools. |
FOT |
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Growth of downtown area while
maintaining character of town |
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Lake maspenok |
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