League of Women Voters of Beloit

Sustainability Committee

Sustainability Survey

Summer Events 2023

Summary Totals

      SD = Strongly Disagree     D   = Disagree     N   = Negative     A   = Agree     SA = Strongly Agree

Questions:

1. Reducing single-use plastic consumption is a priority for me.
2. I believe green infrastructure (tree canopy, pollinator plants, other vegetation) is important.
3. I support efforts to improve street safety, including better road design, reducing/enforcing safe speeds, and extending bike and pedestrian paths.
4. I am also concerned about these sustainability issues:

Comments: City of Beloit Question 1: Reducing single-use plastic consumption is a priority for me.           

• Composable alternatives, etc. – Flying Pig
• Use pages at all stores/reuse.

Comments: City of Beloit Question 2: I believe green infrastructure (tree canopy, pollinator plants, other vegetation) is important.

• The need to put more green areas to span the beauty of the city
• Save the environment
• Biodiversity is important to me
• Normalizing Rain barrels, community gardens, composting, bee keeping
• As a frequent walker, there are not enough garbage cans outside of downtown area and recycling/compost bins would be awesome and are necessary
• Parts of Riverside Park had dandelions – great – no pesticides on part of park
• The city needs to invest and plant more native areas especially vacant lots full of grass

• We must prioritize our environment to keep our planet safe.
• We need to think about all life – plants/bugs/coyotes – (Oh yes, humans too)

Comments: City of Beloit Question 3: I support efforts to improve street safety, including better road design, reducing/enforcing safe speeds, and extending bike and pedestrian paths.

• Liberty Ave needs more enforcement of speeding vehicles, especially semis.
• The safety of the city is getting better One path or Rean(?) at a time Except LEE Lane - - (agreed about efforts to improve safety, except Lee Lane)
• Most streets feel unsafe to ride on the street without bike lanes and speed regulation.Sidewalks tend to be cracked and damaged.
• Unsafe bike routes/streets
• Downtown – Pleasant St -big probs, speed and noise
• So many streets have small children. Please monitor the traffic speeds on the side street – Tremont Dr. (especially)

Comments: City of Beloit Question 4: I am also concerned about these sustainability issues:

• To be nice and courteous to one another
• Extend bike lanes/sidewalks all the way down a road
• Put the 4^th stop light back in at Huebbe Parkway and Prairie Ave PLEASE
• Cranston & Park Left turn signal
• Old, healthy trees being removed for not reason.
• More community gardens on the west side like Merrill Community Garden
• Native plants and how they should plant more.
• Energy/fossil fuels, natural wildlife /habitats, climate change, meat free options at restaurants, water shortages/pollution
• Climate change
• Pollution
• Saving Native bees and giving native animals their habitats back!
• Beloit allows the use of fireworks all year and people set them off every nice evening which causes trauma to animals, pets and birds. This should end.
• Trash on the water (rivers, creeks, beach, lake)
• Air quality & carbon emission
• Creating more greenspace with native prairies
• De-carbonizing the power grid;
• Electrifying city vehicles
• Charging stations
• River cleanup
• Better food options from companies that are more eco-conscious and health conscious
• Addressing climate changed/carbon emissions
• Living off grid
• Gerrymandering- without stopping it, well never have sustainability
• Community wide composting

• Recycle
• Housing for residents
• rental costs maintained at level adjusted for income
• safety with trees
• garbage disposal
• ·none right at this point
• housing
• animal waste – i.e. farming!
• Native grass and plants
• Initiatives
• Education
• Healthcare (to be more affordable)
• We should teach sign language in schools.
• Reducing the use of fossil fuels

Comments: Outside City of Beloit Question 1: Reducing single-use plastic consumption is a priority for me.          

• Of plastic that will biodegrade – (I think they mean not biodegrade), because they agreed
• I would like to eliminate use of all plastic bags.Even all bags.In Australia, they do not provide any bags.
• All plastic should be banned
• Wish it was easier to do so (reduce)
• Also making plastic out of compostable plastic that can degrade.
• I try to limit my use by using my own containers and reusing plastic cups/bottles.

Comments: Outside City of Beloit Question 2: I believe green infrastructure (tree canopy, pollinator plants, other vegetation) is important.

• Heck yes!
• Yes!
• I am fortunate to live in an area htat is wooded, however I’m concerned about the health of our plants and trees.
• I am building my own prairie!! Love native plants.
• Super, super important, prioritize this.

Comments: Outside City of Beloit Question 3: I support efforts to improve street safety, including better road design, reducing/enforcing safe speeds, and extending bike and pedestrian paths.

• Absolutely!
• Thanks for doing this
• Milwaukee has street bumps to reduce speed and concrete to eliminate parking lane passing and speeding.
• Had my own experience being hit be car while on my bike
• Improving grades of crossing points!

Comments: Outside City of Beloit Question 4: I am also concerned about these sustainability issues:

• I am equally concerned about all sustainability issues and commend your work!
• Destruction of habitat
• Green areas with native vegetation
• Water and lawns
• Overcoming/ Containing/ Legislation and Water pollution from farm and industrial sources
• Farm runoff into water
• I ride a bike
• Bringing less heavy lawn poisons to the city
• Would like stores to offer free recyclable bags
• Yes!
• Yes
• Yes – thank you for all you do – Teresa – Rockton IL
• We could have more trees and flowers
• What actually gets recycled from our recycling bin?And Clean water
• Fuel, food and fresh water
• Species survival due to global warming
• Light pollution
• Save the bees and all Pollinators
• Recycling accessibility
• Better continued forest management
• Energy production with natural gas no other renewables (agreed with all points)
• People not recycling properly.Food in jars, unfolded boxes, anything metal – maybe need more education – explain with tax dollars, etc.
• climate change
• air pollution
• yes
• water
• environmental gardening’
• lack of electric public transport
• financial resources for small businesses
• to increase ability to upgrade

Comments: Unknown Question 1: Reducing single-use plastic consumption is a priority for me. 

Comments: Unknown Question 2: I believe green infrastructure (tree canopy, pollinator plants, her vegetation) is important.

• Thank you

Comments: Unknown Question 3: I support efforts to improve street safety, including better road design, reducing/enforcing safe speeds, and extending bike and pedestrian paths

Comments: Unknown Question 4: I am also concerned about these sustainability issues:

• Keeping market every week