2019-06-11 S&O Committee Agenda - Item 19 - Attachment 1 - Community Satisfaction Survey Noosa Shire Council 2019

                          6    What do you think the greatest challenge will be for your local area in the next few
                               years?

                          The general comments provided by respondents are grouped below into common
                          themes with examples of commentary provided below each theme. A full list of
                          comments is provided in the appendices to this report. The common theme areas were:

                                      Growth/Development
                                      Traffic/Congestion/Roads
                                      Infrastructure/Service Provision
                                      Environmental
                                      Governance
                                      Economic Development/Employment
                                      Tourism

                          Growth/Development
                              Coping with growth - infrastructure already stretched and lacking
                              Coping with infrastructure to provide for increased growth in population
                              Dealing with increased population and employment to cater for different age
                                 groups
                              Development of the area
                              Increase of development and infrastructure
                              Management of population growth and tourist accommodation
                              Over development

                          Traffic/Congestion/Roads
                               Congestion: Traffic, people, parking etc
                               Dealing with traffic and population explosion
                               Fixing the road with increased traffic, which has nearly doubled
                               Get back Noosa's atmosphere, Noosa has become too busy for the current roads,
                                   transport and parking infrastructure, particularly Hastings Street and through
                                   Noosa.
                               Improving roads system - traffic problems
                               Keeping the roads maintained
                               Parking especially tourist season HAS to be addressed
                               Road/traffic congestion

                          Infrastructure/Service Provision
                                Infrastructure not holding up to the growing numbers of people. Growing too
                                   fast
                                Lack of facilities and infrastructure
                                Maintenance of keeping up with infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing
                                   community
                                Ongoing maintenance of infrastructure and roads
                                Road infrastructure will need major changes especially adding another entry and
                                   exit
                                Road maintenance - keeping up the parks to a good standard
                                Sunshine Beach, continuous maintenance of infrastructure and facilities. No high-
                                   rises.


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