Living in the City: Envisioning Downtown Housing in Olympia Martin McMurry and Cary Retlin MPA Program, Spring 2007 Photos by CR Density = Vibrancy Diversity Design

Methodology General Public Focus Group ‘Super’ Citizen Focus Group Survey

Who Were the Survey Respondents? 47% of households earn over $60,001 a year 7% of households earn $20,000 or less a year The majority (54%) of respondents are “family” households Household Size

What does a “vibrant” downtown mean to you ?

Rank the Most Important Elements for a Vibrant Downtown

Rank the Most Important Element for Olympia’s downtown Housing in the next 20 Years

Focus Groups Envision Downtown Housing: “A downtown compelling enough to convince people to choose it over the other alternatives.” “There is difficulty in deciphering between a downtown housing vision and a downtown vision; have a cool downtown and people will come.” General Public ‘Super Citizens’

Density Equals Vibrancy Design Matters Demographic Diversity is Valuable Photo by CR 2005

So what ? Photo by CR 2006

Clip art courtesy of Fish Brewing Co. 2007