LIKES

• Cooperation between all the school systems, public and private
• Forward thinking planning on governmental matters
• Enjoy attempts to retain neighborhood feeling
• Appreciate willingness to check into historical matters (archeological)

• Good location
• Area has natural beauty
• Homes reflect
• Good School system

• Size of our city
• Layout of the city
• Street signs
• Schools and their location
• The police department and city officials and all that they do!
• Everyone seems to work well with eachother - so it seems like an almost perfectly functioning city!
• I love Onalaska!

• Handy for everything
• Good schools
• Good roads

• Size of town
• Ease of getting around. Usually traffic is not heavy.
• People are friendly

• New City Hall
• Business development


• Access to multiple transportation options - highway, train, plane, boat
• excellent school system
• New Mainstreet

• Growing and exciting city
• Good mix of commercial and residential property. Nice neighborhoods
• Great schools
• Clean City

• Overall nice community/people
• Close to shopping
• On the waterfront -if you can find it

• Clean city
• Good neighborhoods
• Good public services - utilities, garbage collection etc.

• Good all around planning on development for new buildings

• Our new City Hall
• The bike trail
• Our beautiful school buildings

• The planned growth of Onalaska
• Transportation through city
• Existing parks and view of River/Lake

• Quiet
• Clean
• Forward thinking

• Small-town feeling
• Schools
• Bluffs and river

• Right size
• Have everything
• Friendly people

• Clean community
• Safe community
• Beautiful area

• The gardens

• Clean neighborhoods
• Street maintenance
• Size of the City (15,000)

• The landscape and beauty
• Recreational activities
• The schools

• River bluff parks
• Mix of people
• Open government

• Quality of planning staff
• There is already a plan in place
• They are growth oriented
• Concerned about infrastructure and recreation
• They include the public process

• Community is safe
• Natural resources/lake-bluffs
• Schools/education system

• Parks
• City hall operations
• School systems

• Progressive growth
• Taxes
• Waterfront

• Recreational facilities
• Geography of area
• Community size

• Small community
• Cleanliness -good garbage and recycling personnel
• Friendliness

• Great area for shopping
• Great public works -police -street maintenance, etc.
• Public transportation i.e. shared ride

• Small town atmosphere
• Modern schools and infrastructure
• Active planning process

• Topography (river and bluffs)
• Schools
• Bike trail

• Friendly people
• Attractive surroundings
• Good school system
• Variety of Churches
• Good police and fire

• New growth but small town hospitality
• Desire and willingness to make good future planning choices
• The location - lake, bluffs etc.

• The size of our community
• The people/the government cares about planning and design
• The bluffs and river

• Friendly people
• Excellent school system
• Beautiful bluff/scenery

• Small town atmosphere (quaint)
• People are willing to help the next person
• Community activities for children

• Local preservation of environment
• School system
• Recreational opportunities

• Small-town atmosphere
• People

• Size /Population
• Schools - Quality
• Location - Proximity to LaCrosse

DISLIKES

• Fact we are outgrowing our highway system

• Need left hand turn signal
• No street after County ? Arrow should be pointing on left turn at stop sign

• So many streets do not go through
• The mall area was not well planned, it just grew - not well organized

• No "downtown"
• Not many cultural attractions
• Waterfront not being developed

• Underdeveloped downtown
• 25 mph speed limit everywhere
• "Difficult" City council to adopt new ideas - they are tough and some live in the past

• No downtown
• Lack of multi-family housing - I see this as a community leader (alderman)
• Fairly apathetic voting level (low)
• Very local perspective - not a lot of experience with problems and solutions from other areas

• Not enough affordable housing
• Not much waterfront access
• Mall traffic/congestion

• Traffic congestion around Best Buy/Farm & Fleet area
• Highway 35 area downtown needs rehabilitation

• Engineering needs to be working with the community on certain problem areas!

• Too many chain restaurants
• Slow downtown development
• Train running through town

• Poor downtown
• Need more employment choices

• Traffic
• Poor planning for traffic flow
• City council spends too much time bickering about issues

• Traffic noise
• Crowded roads
• High taxes

• Lack of downtown improvements
• shortage of lower income housing

• Whoever laid out the road system in this town must have been a drunk artist! When I was new here, I couldn't get from point A to point B without getting lost.
• I think the city needs a better system to keep gardens watered

• Lack of an indoor/outdoor pool facility

• Transportation ??
• Waste ??
• Low intergovernmental cooperation

• Would like to see local governments come and work together

• Lack of a downtown /center
• Lack of access to natural resources

• Charter cable rate too high
• Taxes are high
• Alternating parking dates should be after Christmas through March 1st

• Traffic
• Lack of more community participation in local government

• Traffic
• Friction between communities

• Traffic problem
• Problem with upkeep around library "plain messy"
• Charter Cable too controlling

• Traffic and all aspects of travel
• School board and administration that officiates with little control
• Cable TV rates, etc.

• Not "bike friendly"
• No community park
• Need "vibrant downtown"

• Intersection by library
• No pool and no backboards at tennis courts
• Lack of acces to river and safe access to bike trail.

• Losing natural hills and woods to developers (Walnut Estates)
• Alternate parking during non-snow conditions
• Need for traffic lights at high-use intersections
• Keep some Bluff Hiking trails for kids and adults (Old Rock Quarrys and Bear (Beer?) Cave)

• Lack of downtown, hometown businesses

• That the riverfront is not open
• That this process is not regional - cities and towns compete rather than cooperate
• Can we sack the pool?

• Big box retailers centrally located
• Density of homes, small lots
• Major roads lack left, right, straight lanes

• River access
• Lack of emergency help (police and ambulance/fire

• City's refusal to raise taxes to promote progress
• Lack of recruitment of big business to the area
• Stormwater ponds in new development

• Cleanliness, streets could be cleaner, grass growing in sidewalks, businesses run-down and not maintained (JDM Auto)

• Lack of pool - 2 years!
• Poor use of waterfront
• Politics - small town