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Economic Development The survey asked a series of questions about attitudes toward various aspects of economic development. Desired Amount of Business Development: As Table 6 indicates, the great majority of respondents favored more development; respondents were fairly evenly split between "a lot more development" (43%) and "a little more development" (45%). Only 13% wanted no more development. Types of Business Needed: Assuming the city of Louisville decides to encourage business development, approximately one-half of respondents wanted the city to bring the following types of businesses to Louisville: . Retail shopping facilities (53%) . High tech firms (50%) . Research facilities (49%) More than one -quarter of respondents wanted the city to bring light manufacturing (33%), health and medical (29%) and hotel facilities (29%) to Louisville. Attitudes Toward Financial Support for Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Activities: Respondents were asked whether or not the city of Louisville should continue to give money to the Louisville Chamber of Commerce to support economic development and outreach efforts to bring new businesses to Louisville. Three-quarters (78%) of those responding think the city should continue this policy, while 22% think it should not. Sixteen percent of all survey respondents said they didn't know. Attitudes Toward Offering Incentives to Businesses: Those who responded to the question were .somewhat more likely to agree (52%) than disagree (48%) that Louisville should compete with other communities to get businesses to locate in the city by offering incentives. Sixteen percent of all respondents didn't answer. Given the margin of error of +4%, responses to this question should be interpreted as evenly divided. Differences by Ward: There are no statistically significant differences among wards in attitudes toward these economic development issues. 14