- Author
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Tennessee State Planning Commission
- Title
- Oak Ridge Neighborhoods.
- Coporate
- Tennessee State Planning Commission, Oak Ridge
- Report
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Tennessee P-84
August 1970
145 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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housing
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planning
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environmental effects
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economic factors
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decision making
- Abstract
- In the city's 27th year, inspection revealed 92% of its 7,533 residential structures were standard, with 6% neglected or needing minor repair, 1.2% under construction or alteration, and only 0.8% deteriorating and 0.04% dilapidated. Interviews with a 3% sample of households were 77% sucessful (218 interviews), and included a full range of incomes, education, occupations, and family composition. This survey revealed generally favorable citizen attitudes, and also explored pattersn of activity, neighborhood and community problems, perceptions of neighborhood, channels of communication, and use of community facilities. Householders had highest praise for fire prevention, beautificiation, street mainteneance, law enforcement, the library, schools, trash collection, and traffic engineering (decreasing from 90% to 82%), and least awareness of city welfare, nursing, and food inspection services. Improvements were most desired in parks andoutdoor recreation (34% mention), medical care (30%), sidewalds (23%) and animal control (15%), trash collection (14%), and traffic engineering (11%). problem areas mentioned were distributed throughout the city rather than concentrated.