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| | | | Challenges facing Laguna Beach |
What are the greatest challenges facing Laguna Beach? To identify the greatest challenges facing Laguna Beach, participants played a money game. Each participant was given $100 in $20, $10 and $5 denominations and asked to ?vote? on the most important issues facing Laguna Beach. They could allocate all $100 to one issue if they felt very strongly about it or disperse it among all the issues. Booth 3 was one of the most popular events at the Vision Fair with over 500 people casting their vote for the most important issues facing Laguna Beach today. Aside from voting on the six predetermined issues, participants identified 12 other issue areas they felt important to address in the future. Table 1 provides the results of the exercise. Some of the "other" issues are included as bullets with the results of the pre-identified issues due to overlap or similarity. The total dollar amount is based on the amount of money allocated to specific issues. Table 1: Challenges facing Laguna Beach PREDETERMINED ISSUES | TOTAL | | Traffic and Parking Congestion | | | - Transportation (roads, buses, bikes, pedestrians, electric cars) (x20=$450) | $13,970 | | Maintaining Environmental Quality - Ocean and beach quality (x15=$495) | $11,490 | | ?Mansionization? of Homes | $7,310 | | Visitor vs. Local Serving Businesses | $5,650 | | Ensuring Community Diversity - Affordable housing (x6=$150) | $4,965 | | Fire, Floods and Quakes | $3,845 | OTHER IDENTIFIED ISSUES | | | Preserving/acquiring open space and parks (x13) | $900 | | Facilities for senior/community (x12) | $715 | | Arts (x18) | $700 | | Government issues (planning, city manager, mayor) (x8) | $500 | | Social issues (homeless, neighborhood watch, child care, youth, bathrooms (x14) | $495 | | Schools and/or alternative school options (x5) | $200 | | View preservation (x7) | $125 | | Legal nude/topless beach (x3) | $45 | | TOTAL | $50,900 | |
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