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City of Hugo SWOT Summary—Open House No. 1 2008 Comprehensive Plan Update March 14, 2007 • Too much multi-housing. Town homes, condos, etc. Grading dirt roads and cutting grass along the side of the roads. • Shortsighted eager to jump in without full consideration of long-term consequences. Misuse of TIF. Dependence on Landform & WSB/gets the business & city officials. No transparency, attempts to involve constituency, seems like lip service, obligated to, but dislike the "outside" interference. The good of boys know what's best. Opportunities: • We have the opportunity to be a city with two streets- one suburban, and one rural. • It's critical for city officials to regain control over Hugo's future and to salvage some of its rural heritage. To a degree, officials do that when they insist that development (at least in the near-term) first take place west of the Highway 61 corridor. • Parks and Trails Systems (Greatest Opportunity), School System (Great). • Develop a better trail system. Let the east side of Hugo join Grant. Push more cost on developers not the whole city. • Offer a chance to provide input. Keep us informed. • Our greatest opportunity is to look at other communities that have grown or faced our issues and learn from them. I think we should stop, educate, inform, and see what "Our Educated Hugo" wants in the future. • Opportunity to set a high standard for development. Opportunity to start a business, which we are interested in doing. Opportunity to have other cities model Hugo. • Communicating to the residents, this was a good meeting. • The asphalt trail on 61 is wonderful. You also have little neighborhoods and communities that have amenities that exclude each other. Ex. Community pools and Rec. centers, there should be a main community Rec center. • Historically an area for truck crops (Commodities like corn and soybeans) partially due to high water table- farm l2nd is only attractive as potential for development dollar. How about assessing abstracts. Return to the old fashioned sense of community. Growing food that the neighbors eat-helping each other 3