Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2012 05 24

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3 Topic Name: Core Community Values Idea Title: Our Livable Small Town Feel Idea Detail: I think our livable small town feel is one of Louisville's core community values. Idea Author: Katie C Number of Seconds 17 Number of Comments 4 Comment 1: Agree w/ previous posts about differentiating between the good and "bad" aspects of a small town. For me, the small town feel boils down to knowing that when I go to Street Faire, I will run into people I know. | By Drew B Comment 2: I think several other ideas are incorporated in this. A sense of safety walking the streets is a small town value. Having the ability to actually communicate with your neighbors on issues that affect everyone in the community is a small town value. I was struck when I first moved here that a place with such a small town feel would consider itself a city, but came to realize it's the values, not the form of government that make the difference. If it values the personal touches, the sense of history, the neighborliness, the sense of safety among friends, that the people value, the government structure is incidental. So long as the local government is not seeing itself as required to impose or force certain values on the citizens, we're fine. I don't think most people here mean it to convey (I also came from a small town) narrow- mindedness or nosiness about everyone else's business. It's the warmth of a non-urban setting that people appreciate. | By Eva K Comment 3: I have concerns with the words “small town” – does this oversimplify things? – Coming from a Midwest small town there are some aspects of a small town that are not necssisarily desirable. Better to define the aspects of small town that we like. Some of those may be: olivability ocommunity oriented oa sense of closeness (tight knit) odistinct boundaries ounderstandable oit’s own identity (unique) olikely to know your neighbor oquality of life ofriendly (neighborly)