Sustainability Survey Results

The Envision Kentville Sustainability Survey Report is complete and available on line at:

http://www.kentville.ca/documents/icsp/envisionkentvillephasetwo.pdf

This past summer 296 citizens of Kentville participated in verifying and prioritizing community sustainability assets and issues through a door-to-door survey.

Key survey results include:

95% of Kentville citizens support or strongly support the Kentville Vision Statement:
"Kentville is a healthy, vibrant, integrated and complete community where citizens can live work and play in an environment that supports a high quality of life."

79% of Kentville citizens are concerned, very concerned or more than very concerned about declining air quality and its health impacts (i.e. asthma, cancer).

77% of Kentville citizens are concerned, very concerned or more than very concerned about global climate change and its local impacts (i.e. sea level rise and flooding, changes in local weather).

"A" list priorities include:
- protecting and sustainably managing Town water resources
- working with regional partners to clean up the Cornwallis River
- protecting and planning for regional agricultural farmland and protecting the rural nature of the Valley
- encouraging diversity and entrepreneurship in the local economy

Although not a strictly scientific poll, the Survey results are considered to be a directional, social barometer of community opinions with an accuracy of 17/20 (95% confidence +/- 5.55 confidence interval)

For more information, contact sustainability coordinator Brennan Vogel at 902-679-2512 or icsp@town.kentville.ns.ca