1. Living in the City: Envisioning Downtown Housing in Olympia Martin McMurry and Cary Retlin MPA Program, Spring 2007 Photos by CR 2006-2007 Density = Vibrancy Diversity Design

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

3. 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

4. What does a “vibrant” downtown mean to you ?

5. Rank the Most Important Elements for a Vibrant Downtown

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

7. 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’

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

9. So what ? Photo by CR 2006

10. Clip art courtesy of Fish Brewing Co. 2007