Nov 15 Update to Council - Survey Results

This week, the results of the recent Random Sample Survey gauging public priorities and support for various proposed climate actions were presented to the City Council on November 15. The survey enjoyed a 10% response rate and received 264 responses from the randomly selected group of residents. Another 123 responses were submitted by the general public via the online survey portal.

Overall, the random sample respondents ranked air quality, electricity disruption, and extreme heat events as their top climate concerns. They also preferred incentives and education over mandates as the best form of response. Across all climate strategy categories, the majority of survey respondents (74% of random sample and 76% of general public respondents) "strongly supported" or "somewhat supported" proposed strategies. Only two climate actions (out of all 58 proposed) received a score below 50% support. Read the final CAP Survey Report.

As part of the City’s ongoing public engagement activities around the CAP, a community workshop scheduled for November 29 (see previous news post) will walk through the survey results, GHG emissions status, and gather additional community feedback..

City Council Meeting materials are available here (Item 1), or link directly to the archived video of the presentation. View the slidedeck summary of the survey results or the final survey report. These are also posted in the Let's Talk CAP Document Library.