{"id":334,"date":"2007-02-26T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T14:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2007-02-26T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T20:33:04","slug":"survey-sez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Survey Sez:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Survey2007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lwvor.com\/Survey2007.pdf\">survey<\/a> sponsored by the <a title=\"LWVOR\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lwvor.com\">League of Women Voters<\/a> is in.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About a third of respondents report doing their non-grocery shopping outside Oak Ridge;<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 40% of respondents report traveling to Knox County at least once a week to shop;<\/li>\n<li>More than half believe that the new shopping center would allow them to do more shopping locally;<\/li>\n<li>Under the condition that City funds committed to the project would be repaid through future tax revenues, respondents are more likely to view the proposal favorably, but remain sharply divided on using City funds to support site development for the shopping center.<\/li>\n<li>Under the condition that future tax revenues from the shopping center would assist the local schools, respondents are much more likely to support the proposed C8ty assistance to the project, but still about a third of respondents remain opposed to the idea.<\/li>\n<li>Older persons and males are more likely to oppose the City&#8217;s financial involvement in the shopping center project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, who does the majority of the shopping?  Younger people and women, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>To the question, &#8220;if the revenue produced by the shopping center would provide new money for the Oak Ridge Schools, Anderson County Schools, and Clinton City Schools, should the City agree to this request (for $10.5M in City financial assistance), the weighted response was 52% in favor.<\/p>\n<p>Without question, the results are far from the decisive and positive as I had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the League of Women Voters, you can read the whole thing for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The survey sponsored by the League of Women Voters is in. About a third of respondents report doing their non-grocery shopping outside Oak Ridge; Nearly 40% of respondents report traveling to Knox County at least once a week to shop; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}