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responsive and completed in a timely fashion. On the frequency of street sweeping, two-thirds of the sample supported the current two or three times yearly schedule. They also provided street sweeping with a strong eighty-five percent approval rating. Mounds View residents, then, are unusually pleased with the conditions and cleanliness off their streets. - Eighty -five percent_ of the respondents also approved of their police protection; only nine percent disapproved- Seventy- seven percent felt the current amount of patrolling in their neighborhood was about right. But, even so, a forty-eight percent to thirty-eight percent plurality favored the hiring of more police. -officers even if an increase in property taxes were required. The Mounds View Police Department, then, is felt to be doing a good job, and many residents do not oppose actions to hire more police officers to meet community needs. Fifty-five percent of the respondents reported participating in the Mounds View curbside pick-up program. This level of participation is about average for Ramsey County; albeit far less than Dakota County levels. Non -participants were split into four groups: those needing further information, those self -described as "lazy," residences in which recycling is unavailable, and participants in other recycling programs. The only change residents strongly endorsed was the provision of containers: seventy-two percent hope that they will be provided. There was also support for more frequent pick-ups and the collection of plastics. Residents supported the present hauling system over any city assignment of haulers, with twice as many favoring the requirement that haulers collect recyclables and - yard waste, rather than the City doing 'so.. Mounds View residents are amenable to recycling, but insist on retaining the choice of their refuse hauler. Ninety-two:'percent of the sample rated the quality of life in Mounds View as either "excellent" or "good." Sixty percent felt things had been changing for the better in the. community during the past few years;only nine percent felt they were worse. The mood among residents is both optimistic and up -beat. As a general perspective, development preferences were directed at single family homes. - Fifty percent support attracting more of these structures, as opposed to sixteen percent favoring light industry and fifteen percent, commercial projects. Most residents did not see any particular area of the city which sorely needed redevelopment -- lesser candidates included Highway 10 and various apartment complexes. But, preferences deviated from the general perspective on the question of Highway 10 between County Road I and the Spring Lake Park city limits: commercial and light industrial uses were favored by forty-seven percent, while fifteen percent thought retail uses were more appropriate. Most citizens, then, favor only single family dwellings nearby or in current residential neighborhoods, but support a mixed use along the major artery in the community. 3