1). How many years have you lived in Canton?

2). What is the single most important issue facing Canton today?!
Neighborhoods
Downtown

< 5 years

5-9

Schools
Image

Safety
Other

14%

10-20

8%
2%

36%

20+

I do not currently
live in Canton

33%
0

10

20

30

40

3). Do you presently rent or own the house you live in?
Rent

8%

Responses to the Other included: economics and

jobs, poverty, fear of poverty, and roads

Own

11%

89%

Canton Initial Survey, 9/10/14-10/20/14

4a). Residents of Canton and business owners have a choice. Option 1 is to more or less keep doing what you have been doing
in terms of public policies, business practices, and so on. In other words, to only make minor - if any - changes to how we make
decision, how we spend tax dollars, how we relate to one another, and so forth. Option 2 is to make radical changes. Select the
first option - keep doing what we're doing - if you think the trajectory Canton is on now is a good one. Select the second option make big changes - if you think big changes are needed.

Little, if any, change is needed

BIG change is needed

Other

15

30

45

60

1!

Responses to the option Other include: in between, market the HOF and downtown, continue to support downtown Canton,
specifically the Kresge green space and the arts. Other respondents commented that the question was too broad to answer
effectively.

Canton Initial Survey, 9/10/14-10/20/14

4b). Besides yourself, do you think most of the Canton community thinks little change or BIG change is needed?

Little, if any, change is needed

BIG change is needed

Somewhere in between

25

50

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Canton Initial Survey, 9/10/14-10/20/14

Two part question:

The best comprehensive planning processes are the ones that push a community out of its comfort zone. Issues of taxation,
fairness, public safety and policing, race, job creation and scarcity, parks, and schools are frequently very challenging to talk
openly about.

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5a). Do you think the Canton community

needs to be pushed to wrestle with complex and
sometimes uncomfortable issues such as these?

Yes

No

5b). Do you think the Canton community can

handle being pushed to wrestle with complex and
sometimes uncomfortable issues such as these?

Yes

No

2%
37%
63%
98%

Canton Initial Survey, 9/10/14-10/20/14