Date:___________

PARKS AND GREEN SPACES

PUBLIC COMMENT FORM

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts about a possible parks and green
spaces levy by filling out this survey. Forms should be returned at the sign-in table
when you leave the meeting.

1. What neighborhood do you live in?

2. Are you attending this meeting as a member of a community organization? If so,

please indicate what organization you are with.

3. Why are parks and green spaces important to you?

4. What are the most important needs that a parks and green spaces levy should
address in your neighborhood?

5. What are the most important needs the levy should address for the City as a whole?
6. How should levy funds be used to meet the needs you identified? (Please rate the
types of projects listed below on a scale from one to ten, with ten being the highest
score by circling the appropriate number).

a) Buy greenbelts and natural areas.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

b) Buy land to create new parks in areas that don’t have them.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

c) Buy land to expand the number of community gardens and p-patches.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

d) Improve major City parks (such as Woodland, Lincoln, Jefferson, Magnuson,

etc.).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

e) Improve existing neighborhood parks.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

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f) Build new neighborhood parks.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

g) Make improvements at children’s playgrounds and wading pools.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

h) Make improvements in parks department buildings and public piers.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

i) Improve community recreation centers.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

j) Improve school grounds for community recreation.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

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k) Provide lights and all-weather surfaces at sports fields.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

l) Expand the City’s network of bicycle and pedestrian trails.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

m) Restore forests, creeks and shorelines.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

n) Create green streets, swales and natural drainage projects.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

o) Please list other types of projects you think are important and rank them:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

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 p) Create an “opportunity fund” to help pay for projects that are identified in the
future to create parks, green spaces and recreation opportunities in
neighborhoods.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(Low Importance) (High Importance)

7. Please name any specific projects you would like to see included in a parks and
green spaces levy:

8. Please list any specific projects you do not want to see included in a parks and
green spaces levy:

9. Do you support placing a parks and green spaces levy on the ballot this November?

 Yes  No  Undecided

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10. Would you like to receive progress reports about the levy?

 Yes  No

If yes, please list your mailing address and/or e-mail address below:

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Thank you for helping the Parks and Green Spaces Levy Citizen’s Advisory Committee
to complete its work!

Please return this form to the sign-in table. If you wish to take the form home to
complete, please mail it to:

Cedar River Group, LLC

93 Pike Street
Suite 315
Seattle, WA 98101

Opinion forms received by May 16, 2008 will be part of the committee report.