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City of Mounds View Page 6 <br />Business Image Survey Report <br /> <br />February 2, 2009 <br /> <br />• Eliminate low cost and subsidized housing <br />• Reduce or eliminate the unnecessary taxes imposed on small businesses in the City of <br />Mounds View. Work within the means provided to the City. Like the small businesses <br />have to. MANAGE YOUR MONEY!! <br />• Improving the County 10 corridor- shops, businesses, housing etc. Create a Grand Ave. <br />feel. <br />• Community Center service (is) less responsive and reliable than the Darby days. Our <br />staff wants to use Shoreview, event though MVCC is just down the street <br /> <br /> <br />Attributes Important to Businesses <br />To measure opinions towards attributes that were seen as significantly important to businesses, <br />we have created box scores that combined the Most Important and Somewhat Important <br />responses together for an overall ranking: <br /> <br />RANK <br />1. Easy access to my business 80.0% <br />2. Improved traffic flow 80.0% <br />3. Tax incentives 73.3% <br />4. Energy costs 73.3% <br />5. Planned city improvements 66.6% <br />6. Improved road signage 63.4% <br />7. Repair and restoration of older buildings and structures 63.4% <br />8. Subsidies to improve city streets for business development 63.3% <br />9. Anchor “Big Box” Store (Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy) 56.7% <br />10. Rapid transit along the County Road 10 corridor 53.3% <br />11. A Business Merchants Association 48.4% <br />12. Code enforcement 45.2% <br />13. WiFi access 36.7% <br />14. Uniform business signage 36.7% <br />15. Better pedestrian and bicycle access 36.6% <br />16. More “specialty” or seasonal events sponsored by Mounds View 20.0% <br /> <br />When businesses were asked what they thought was the single most appealing aspect of Mounds <br />View, the following written replies were provided: <br />• Location (multiple) <br />• County Road 10 – Traffic going by my business <br />• Population <br />• Small town feel, with great sense of community <br />• Small size <br />• Warm community <br />• Great highway access <br />• Parks <br />• Mounds View Square <br />• We love all aspects of Mounds View <br />• Our experience here in Mounds View has been completely positive <br />• It is still a middle class area and usually that means they are family people <br />• Convenient location. Now Medtronic <br /> <br />