Open House Survey - Detailed Results

Poking around the municipal website tonight I came across an in-depth breakdown of the results to the municipality's open house survey. There's a lot here to digest, in a decidedly unbiased presentation. The comments section is particularly interesting; with respect to many of the more contentious issues (the proposed golf course, ALR land, highway development, etc.) the comments were weighted very heavily in favour of a more moderate, cautious approach. Of course the number of respondents that took the trouble to write their own comments was very small, so statistically these responses may not be as meaningful as I initially took them to be. Nevertheless, there has to be some significance to the fact that of those that responded, 29 people were in opposition to the proposed golf course versus 2 in favour, 28 people want land left in the ALR versus 6 in favour of small parcels being removed, etc. You get the idea.

At any rate it's interesting to compare the results here with the results of the unofficial survey referenced below; they're not all that far apart and overall seem to indicate an unmistakable preference for a careful and thoughtful approach to development here in Summerland.