Chart Question

Total

Responses

Percentage

of Total

Which category best describes your job?

• Industry/manufacturing

0

0%

• Education

1

1%

• Transportation, communication, and utilities

1

1%

• Government/public administration

2

2%

• Construction

5

6%

• Finance, insurance, and real estate

9

10%

• Retail/wholesale trade

13

14%

• Services (other than education)

18

20%

• Other (to include retired)

41

46%

Total

90

100%

Most important community issues over next 5-10 years

• Small town atmosphere/community character

43

27%

• Economic development/tourism

36

23%

• Physical environment

16

10%

• Retail and grocery stores

14

9%

• Recreation/entertainment

12

8%

• Transportation, roads, and streets

10

6%

• Public services (to include crime and safety)

10

6%

• Education

9

6%

• Annexation

4

3%

• Youth activities

3

2%

• Other

1

1%

Total

158

100%

401

Economic Development and Tourism

23

• Make Maggie Valley a family vacation destination

20

• Promote heritage and historical aspect of town

16

• Capitalize on our magnificent beauty and proximity to Smoky Mountain National Park by advertising the area as a destination resort and retirement community

16

• Get Ghost Town re-opened

16

• Promote winter season for tourism (i.e., lights, etc.)

15

• Open Ghost Town

15

• Revitalize Ghost Town

14

• Create year-round town (i.e., businesses operating all year long for tourists and residents)

14

• No fast food chains

13

• Encourage local shopping including grocery stores

11

• Create incentives for business to locate here

11

• Establish a theme for the business community (such as Helen, GA or Leavenworth, WA) to assist in creating a destination resort in Maggie Valley

11

• Explore possibility of a winterfest

9

• Pass a sign ordinance requiring businesses to use a uniform format

8

• Maintain small town atmosphere

7

• Decrease festival activity such as Harley rallies

7

• Establish a theme for Maggie Valley

7

• Host theme events based on mountain heritage

6

• Build grocery store

6

• Develop more family-oriented tourist attractions

6

• Encourage tourist attractions

6

• Hire a festival director

6

• Increase family entertainment options

6

• Need nice grocery store in town

6

• Promote development, and partner with developers; have the city bear its fair share of the cost

6

• Revitalize Ghost Town (apply for grant) and other tourist-related industries

5

• Create jobs with higher than minimum wage

5

• Develop community activities for the winter months

5

• Move festivals and large, rowdy gatherings out of downtown

5

• Need chain restaurants

5

• Promote and assist with the development of a walking mall, and assist in the establishment of basic shopping malls (such as pharmacies, grocery stores, and drycleaners) so that Maggie Valley can be self-sufficient

4

• Attract young residents

4

• Bring in a bakery

4

• Build supermarket

4

• Initiate a historical association

4

• Invite freelance musicians to play around town

4

• Promote the sale of Ghost Town Amusement Park

3

• Bring in a laundromat

3

• Capitalize on elk capital of the world

3

• Develop more year-round businesses

3

• Need lower taxes

3

• Promote more competitive gas prices

3

• Promote tourism

3

• Return public power to the people by holding public officials accountable for tax increases and the public use of the festival grounds

3

• Use festival grounds year-round

2

• Continue craft shows

2

• Create economic development committee

2

• Expand events in town

2

• Extend tourist season

2

• Form search committee to locate Ghost Town buyer

2

• Incentives such as lower or no taxes to entice businesses to come to Maggie Valley

2

• Need a pharmacy/medical facility

2

• Need children/family attractions

2

• Need family variety stores

2

• Need family-owned drug store/grocery; no major chains

2

• Need more chain (non-home cooking) restaurants

2

• Plan an event at festival ground every weekend

2

• Promote Maggie Valley by working together

2

• Provide tourist information center – make it more visible

2

• Support Soco Zoo

1

• Attempt to attract retail-oriented residents instead of tourists

1

• Cooperate better with civic association

1

• Create more entertainment that is affordable for families

1

• Desire incentives/package deals for tourists

1

• Diverse use of festival grounds

1

• Encourage residents to support local businesses

1

• Enlarge ski area to attract more tourists

1

• Hire an event coordinator, and let them do their job without interference

1

• Let the festival grounds go to a private party

1

• More jobs for youth

1

• More special events (car shows, etc.)

1

• Need major grocery store

1

• Need more entertainment for seniors

1

• Need supermarket and drug store

1

• Reduce public emphasis on tourism

1

• Reduce utility costs

1

• Utilize festival grounds

0

• Accommodate resident and business concerns

0

• Better/more effective marketing of town

0

• Build a grocery store

0

• Bus tourists to Harrah’s Casino

0

• Business area downtown

0

• Concern: what about Ghost Town?

0

• Convert Eagle’s Nest to a convention center

0

• Coordinate marketing plans with area, county, and state

0

• Develop a what to do in Maggie Valley brochure

0

• Develop trolley to Waynesville and back

0

• Diversify businesses

0

• Encourage local farmer’s market

0

• Establish a historical museum

0

• Identify and use private financial resources in the area

0

• Increase local participation in events and businesses

0

• Keep holding craft shows

0

• Limit number of craft shows to either slow times or not at all

0

• Make a decision on whether to be a residential or tourist town

0

• More interaction between businesses and residents

0

• More job opportunities to prevent poverty

0

• Murals on business fronts

0

• Need weekly event at town center

0

• Promote economic development related to beauty and culture

0

• Residents and business owners go to other festivals in NC and SC to promote Maggie Valley through the use of flyers, rack cards, etc.

0

• Solicit job opportunities (such as biotech)

0

• Use festival grounds for craft shows (not run by town hall)

0

• Viable visitor center

0

• Working relationship better for all parties in order to coordinate and promote the benefits of Maggie Valley

353

Services, Local Government, Communication, and Cooperation

26

• No closed door meetings

20

• Eliminate or control major noise producing events (e.g., Harleys, bull riding, monster trucks)

15

• Continue Stony Ridge garbage service as is

14

• Add more professionalism to town government meetings

13

• Enforce motorcycle noise ordinance

13

• Provide homestead rights for those over 65 and disabled

11

• Address speeding issue (pedestrian safety)

11

• Need police officers on duty 24 hours

10

• Pass and enforce noise ordinance

10

• Strongly enforce noise ordinance (don’t want to be known as motorcycle rally capital)

9

• Provide all city services to annexed areas

9

• Reduce the size of government to reflect community needs, thus reducing our taxes and establishing a sales tax to assist with providing basic services; this will allow visitors to pay their fair share

8

• Elected police chief

8

• Less government intervention in business and private affairs

7

• Give tax incentive for potential buyer of Ghost Town and for other large employers

7

• Identify human resources and talent in the area, and use them (e.g., CEOs, engineers, investors, PhDs, etc.)

7

• Make police department available and accessible at all times

7

• Make police more visible

6

• Provide for more police patrol

6

• Unlock door to police station during office hours, and have a human voice on the line

5

• Desire better planning for growth management

5

• Develop and distribute a map of the greater Maggie Valley area (to include street names)

5

• Listen to the public…let the people govern

5

• Need a dispatcher in Maggie Valley

4

• Continue family-friendly activities

4

• Elect a police chief

4

• Increase youth activities

4

• More publicity of Town events (TV and radio)

4

• Need efficient management in the police department

4

• Need peace and quiet

4

• Put some teeth in building restrictions

4

• Reduce motorcycle noise after 12 am

4

• Strong, unified city hall

4

• Tax break for senior citizens – homestead exemption

4

• Treat seasonal and permanent residents equal

3

• Enforce noise ordinance

3

• Hold taxes down by careful planning

3

• Improve communication between local government and the residents

3

• Increase police visibility

3

• Lower price of sewer taps

3

• Lower taxes

3

• More meetings like this…and publish results

3

• Promote the town (and not the individual agendas of elected officials)

3

• Provide water and sewer to as many people as possible

2

• Annex Waynesville – you want to annex everything else

2

• Better control noise and air pollution

2

• Better information regarding annexation

2

• Come together as a community

2

• Construct crosswalks where islands presently exist

2

• Don’t raise taxes

2

• Enact noise pollution ordinance

2

• Increase hotel and restaurant taxes

2

• Mayor should listen to the people

2

• Noise abatement – particularly motorcycles

2

• Provide police protection after 7 pm

2

• Reduce noise at festival grounds

2

• Remove junk off the streets immediately

2

• Stop conflicts among elected officials

2

• Stop spending without community approval

1

• Combine water and sewer departments

1

• Enforce public ordinances

1

• Expand garbage service to include convenience center in Maggie Valley

1

• Follow through on what is presented

1

• Hire full-time grant writer

1

• Improve testing of drinking water

1

• Increase homeowner interest on governing body

1

• Make impact fees fair

1

• Need 24 hour police force

1

• Need clean entertainment for kids

1

• Need town government to promote MV in a positive way

1

• No more town spending until we grow

1

• Promote services and events for retirees and families

1

• Treat everyone equally – less discrimination against newcomers

1

• Work together as a community in all efforts

0

• Common sense approach to most problems

0

• Continuing education program

0

• Desire affordable trash pick-up

0

• Develop an alternate evacuation plan

0

• Dissolve the township

0

• Either more active police department or disband all together

0

• Encourage citizen involvement in community events

0

• Enforce a better community plan

0

• Finish projects in a timely manner

0

• Full-time emergency dispatcher and full-time police dispatcher

0

• Improve communication within community

0

• Improve town septic services

0

• Increase ETJ

0

• Inform potential annexation residents of future plans

0

• Leadership working together

0

• Less political in-fighting and acceptance of non-natives

0

• Limit special events that are large and irritating in nature

0

• Limit/stop tax increases

0

• Local government should listen more to the community

0

• Locate and utilize resources from outside Maggie Valley

0

• Make decision on direction of growth quickly

0

• More meetings like tonight

0

• Need more family-oriented events

0

• Only permanent residents get to vote

0

• Post emergency plans for town

0

• Provide tax discount for senior citizens

0

• Residential-friendly

0

• Supply youth nighttime activities

210

Transportation, Community Facilities, Infrastructure, and Programs

42

• Add fire hydrants

19

• Rethink traffic islands

14

• More street lights

12

• Enforce speed limits as posted

11

• Need to enforce speed limits

7

• Provide services for the tax dollars collected (such as road maintenance)

7

• Provide snow plowing on secondary roads

7

• Repair Rocky Top Road

6

• Enforce speed and safety laws

5

• Enforce crosswalk safety

5

• Enforce speed limit on main drag

5

• Enforce speed limits through the valley

5

• Install traffic lights, and promote tourism

5

• More pedestrian-friendly town by improving sidewalks and enforcing the speed limit

4

• Address traffic noise

4

• Extend water and sewer by obtaining grants and loans to facilitate expansion of infrastructure

4

• Remove traffic islands in the street

4

• Stop placing islands in the middle of the highway

4

• Widen Rocky Top Road

3

• Need public radio station

3

• Provide public transportation between towns

3

• Remove median islands at graveyards

2

• Add more street lights in the rural areas

2

• Enforce speed limit

2

• Place caution lights at all crosswalks

2

• Remove medians on main street

1

• Build a convention center

1

• Caution lights to slow traffic

1

• Establish assisted living facility

1

• Establishment of festival grounds

1

• Improve medians

1

• Improve road signs and identification of buildings

1

• Improve secondary roads

1

• Improve the flow of traffic

1

• Install more fire hydrants

1

• Install street lights on Soco Road

1

• Maintain and widen existing roads

1

• Need civic center

1

• Need more public restrooms in congested areas such as greenways

1

• Proper road construction, especially drainage

1

• Provide bike paths

1

• Provide diagonal parking at post office

1

• Repair and clean sidewalks

1

• Repave/improve Soco Road and sidewalks

1

• Sidewalks on Moody Farm Road

1

• Start transportation system to reach outside attractions

1

• Traffic calming

1

• Use shuttles/trolleys

1

• Widen secondary roads for safety

0

• Add more fire hydrants

0

• Clean sidewalks and gutters more often

0

• Continue sidewalk project

0

• Convert current town hall to community center

0

• Create more year-round activities

0

• Eliminate motorcycles

0

• Enforce speed limit on Evans Cone Road

0

• Establish/maintain road salting program

0

• Improve road maintenance

0

• Maintain existing infrastructure better

0

• Move visitor center to town hall

0

• Need low cost infrastructure

0

• Need more pedestrian crosswalks

0

• New city offices elsewhere

0

• Public transport

0

• Start smart roads committee

166

Land Use and Controls

23

• No forced annexation

23

• No forced annexation

17

• Stop forced annexation

17

• Stop annexation

15

• No forced annexation

14

• Control mountainside development

11

• Zone one mile in each direction

6

• Consider resident rights when planning for businesses

6

• No more forced annexation

4

• Create barriers to screen RV parks from roadside

4

• Discourage overdevelopment of clustered houses

3

• Leave town as is

3

• Limit billboards

3

• Respect individual rights of property owners

2

• Allow for voluntary annexation

2

• Establish comprehensive zoning to stop spotty development – no junk

2

• Introduce limited zoning to protect the scenery

2

• Keep pace of growth without sacrificing heritage and history; more people learning history

2

• Reduce billboards to uniform smaller signs, and enforce ordinances

2

• Restrict further RV campgrounds

2

• Stop ridge building, and activate ridge law

1

• Levy fines on property owners who do not maintain property

1

• Prohibit new campgrounds on Soco Road

1

• Signs and billboards of a unified size

0

• Accept only voluntary annexation

0

• Approve all annexation…for most this is a good place to live

0

• Grow by voluntary annexation

142

Aesthetics and Community Appearance

26

• Clean up and hide junkyards and sloppy businesses

22

• Bury power lines

10

• Bury utility lines underground

9

• Beautification projects (such as street lights, public bathrooms, bike paths, and fountains)

9

• Clean up eye sores in town

7

• Install power lines underground

7

• Remove all junk cars, buses, trucks, and heavy equipment

6

• Need architectural presence on main drag

6

• Plant more trees along Soco Road

5

• Place larger Maggie Valley signs at major interstates (with direction to town)

4

• Establish an appearance committee to screen new structure proposals and make recommendations for existing structures

4

• Maintain village atmosphere (more greenways, no big shopping centers, small quaint shops)

3

• Bury utility lines

3

• Remove flower pots from Soco Road

3

• Rid the valley of all junk cars

2

• Make the town more aesthetically pleasing (more trees, benches, flowers, and green road frontage)

2

• Oversee architectural standards

2

• Remove billboards on US 19

1

• Address unsightly and abandoned buildings

1

• Bury utility lines

1

• Clean up unattractive businesses

1

• Create tree-lined Soco Road

1

• Eliminate billboards

1

• Eliminate litter

1

• Improve signage continuity

1

• Maintain rural character

1

• Plant (flowers, shrubs, etc.) in islands on US 19

1

• Remove old buildings

1

• Remove unused buildings

1

• Underground utilities

0

• Concern for the loss of small town appearance and feeling

0

• Encourage storefront continuity of appearance

0

• Expand beautification projects

0

• Install community beautification program

0

• More landscaping

0

• Plant more trees

0

• Plant taller trees

0

• Remove election signs when over

0

• Remove Maggie trash barrels

0

• Remove spit cups from town meetings

0

• Use attractive signage for events at entrances to the valley

0

• Work with county and Waynesville to clean no man’s land area

48

Physical Environment

11

• Preserve natural beauty of the valley

10

• Protect our watershed

6

• Control erosion by limiting tree removal and earth removal

5

• Keep the natural beauty

5

• Protect air and water quality

4

• Protect the water

3

• Stop hilltop removal for fill dirt

2

• Promote water conservation, and protect watershed/nature

2

• Remove planters and better elk management

0

• Control wildlife

0

• Enforce clean air

0

• Promote friendly/helpful environment

45

Parks, Recreation, and Open Space

15

• Construct recreation facilities (tennis, ballpark, and pool)

8

• Return to original greenway plans (including walkways and bike paths)

6

• Continue greenway/park construction

5

• Build recreation facility or gym

4

• Make Jonathan Creek more accessible

3

• Need recreation areas (tennis courts, picnic area, etc.)

1

• Increase recreational green spaces

1

• Make creek fronts recreational areas

1

• Need more recreational areas (parks, etc.)

1

• Place time limit on completion of greenway

0

• Apply for parks and recreation fund and grant money

0

• Construct a children’s park

0

• Create creek greenway

0

• Heated swimming pool with hot tub in recreation center

0

• Reschedule Pickin’ at the Pavilion