Ratings of the City’s maintenance of parks; beaches; medians, greenbelts and street trees; as well as street cleanliness and cleanliness of the City as a whole remain among the highest rated items on the survey. Street cleanliness has dropped five percentage points since 1997, yet remains high at 89% favorable. On the other hand, City street conditions have continually declined from a high of 91% favorable in 1997 to 67% favorable in 2005. This item was the only one that has shown a decline greater than eight percentage points in eight years (24 point drop).

CITY GOVERNMENT
Government Efforts | Communications

The section on City government is divided into two groups and two graphs, for ease of presentation. The first group of items shown below concerns the City government’s efforts to preserve historic resources, parks/open space, to keep pollutants out of the Bay and code/zoning regulation enforcement. Preservation efforts remain highly rated and zoning, which had shown a seven-point drop, has rebounded to an 85% favorability rating. The new item on to keep pollutants out of the Bay has an 88% rating, five points lower than preservation of historic resources and preservation of open space/parks.

CITY GOVERNMENT
Government Efforts | Communications

Two sets of items are combined in this graph. Three items address the
information value of City Focus newsletter, City Web site and City TV programs.
All continue to receive high ratings. The other three items address citizen
involvement: keeping you informed about City services, events and issues;
opportunities to participate in City decision-making process; and considers/listens
to citizen comments/input. These, too, have remained stable, with ratings of
keeping you informed considerably higher than considers/listens to
comments/input. Of the six items listed here, only considers/listens received
favorability ratings lower than 80%. However, it has remained stable during the last several years.