The areas with the least safety concern are shown next. Concerns about Cannery Row have dropped and stayed low for the past two years. Other areas fluctuate, but remain low in safety concern.

City Council Meetings on Cable TV
Sixty-one percent of raters said they would watch City Council meetings if they were broadcast on local cable TV, and 73% said they would find it informative to have City Council meetings on local cable TV.

Written Comments
A sample of written comments were typed and submitted as an appendix to the report to the City Council. The following were the most frequent themes in the written comments:

1. Beach related (add trash cans, bathrooms, picnic tables, clean it, volleyball courts, dead plants in islands, drinking fountains, remove the homeless).
2. Traffic signs (add stoplights, signs, red curbs, paint crosswalks, time to cross, streetlights).
3. Speeding (cars, but also bikes and skateboarders).
4. Neighborhood parking (near Fairgrounds, 1-hour zones, abandoned cars, used cars for sale).
5. Street conditions (potholes, widen, water drainage, resurface, soil loss).
6. Efforts to preserve open space (mostly positive, some complaints of parking lot in Window on the Bay).
7. Schools (more support for, especially High School).

Other topics included: Cleanliness (sidewalks, bus stops, neighbor yards); Noise (neighbors, traffic, airport); Parking (downtown, employees, 2 -> 4 hr. free); Tunnel (needs scrubbing); City government (some positive); Bike lanes; Garbage.

There were many Thank you’s in the comments, including the opportunity to provide feedback to the City this way. Topics suggested for future surveys: cinema complex, BMX track, sewage problem, Cannery Row market place, tourism.