The latest Laramie Community Survey shows residents support the city’s push to address the housing shortage and generally view the police favorably, but most are dissatisfied with road maintenance.
Good story. Glad you compared Laramie to national results. Would be interesting to find out why citizens are unhappy with waste and recycling. Seems like Laramie does a good job to me.
I was not surprised with the survey results in the regards to housing. Housing has been a problem for years with University and WyoTech students and possibly LCCC students all competing for the same rentals. The housing market is just crazy at the moment, houses that were 150K are now 250K.
I also was not shocked at the roads results. We as council hear about it monthly. Rather its parking or streets.
We know its a big project to tackle and without much funding its hard, then you bring in the discussion of West Laramie. West Laramie was annexed into Laramie in the 50's due to a state mandate. Living conditions were not up to par with wells and septic systems.
This is were the problem comes in, is it fair for the city to pay for the roads when its common for the developer to pay for those roadways. Since it is already developed do just the citizens in West Laramie pay for them? Does all of Laramie? I personally believe, as do others per emails we receive, West Laramie feels they are separate from Laramie and don't receive the attention other parts of Laramie receives.
Lastly, I was surprised with the waste and recycling. I'm going to see on the next survey if they can ask another question on what they would like changed with it.
Good story. Glad you compared Laramie to national results. Would be interesting to find out why citizens are unhappy with waste and recycling. Seems like Laramie does a good job to me.
I was not surprised with the survey results in the regards to housing. Housing has been a problem for years with University and WyoTech students and possibly LCCC students all competing for the same rentals. The housing market is just crazy at the moment, houses that were 150K are now 250K.
I also was not shocked at the roads results. We as council hear about it monthly. Rather its parking or streets.
We know its a big project to tackle and without much funding its hard, then you bring in the discussion of West Laramie. West Laramie was annexed into Laramie in the 50's due to a state mandate. Living conditions were not up to par with wells and septic systems.
This is were the problem comes in, is it fair for the city to pay for the roads when its common for the developer to pay for those roadways. Since it is already developed do just the citizens in West Laramie pay for them? Does all of Laramie? I personally believe, as do others per emails we receive, West Laramie feels they are separate from Laramie and don't receive the attention other parts of Laramie receives.
Lastly, I was surprised with the waste and recycling. I'm going to see on the next survey if they can ask another question on what they would like changed with it.
Rant over* lol