This is part of an occasional series of articles by others on community planning.
When it comes to making decisions about what types of developments work in a particular neighborhood, who better to ask than the folks who live there?
Community surveys as part of the planning process are a key tool to help determine what elements of a project would work well in a neighborhood. However, creating a survey and getting responses are not as easy as it sounds.
The first step is determining whether a survey is needed. Once a decision is made to move forward, the questions must be created.
“Good questions are clear and answerable for respondents. When crafting questions, we must have the target respondents in mind. We have to anticipate their receptivity to different types of question formats and their willingness to answer them.”
Read the full story: Surveys: Finding Out What People Want