Who responded ?
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Gender
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Total Number
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Female
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47
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Male
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24
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Total
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71
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How do you rate living in Uki ?
Female
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Rating
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Poor
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fair
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Good
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Very Good
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Excellent
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Now
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0
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0
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1
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17
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16
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0
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5 years
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2
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4
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10
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12
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11
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5
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Male
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Rating
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Poor
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fair
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Good
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Very Good
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Excellent
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Now
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0
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0
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5
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9
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9
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0
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5 years
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1
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3
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2
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7
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9
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2
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Male / Female
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Rating
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Poor
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fair
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Good
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Very Good
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Excellent
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Now
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0
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0
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15
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26
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25
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0
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5 years
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3
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7
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12
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19
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20
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7
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What is important to you living in the District?
Spirituality of the place
Peace and quiet
Opportunities to be involved
Small community/sense of community/community spirit/country attitudes/ sense of community feeling of belonging
People and their values – alternative, green tolerant, artists, musicians, dancers
Friendliness/opportunity to mix
Volunteers
Supportive community
People
Strong cohesive community
Clean environment
Local shopping
Local amenities and facilities
Children’s facilities
Near facilities
Public parks
Rural lifestyle
Care of natural environment
Natural environment/Access to nature/Landscape/natural environment
Pleasant walks
Good mix of rural and residential
Contained development
Feeling safe
Markets
Access to local produce
Guesthouses and those who run them
More real jobs
Clean water
Good places to hang out
Affordability
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How has Uki changed?
School number down
More traffic (volume and speed) – especially heavy trucks
No increase in services
More focus on tourism in Main Street
Increase in land prices – exclude middle income families
Proper planning provisions that differentiate from high density city living
More people More houses More tourists
Increase in density of development
Trees cut down
Bit more money in the area
Pub more presentable
I have changed more than noticed Uki changed
Become more bourgeois
Become too busy
More noise – machinery and businesses
Landcare projects have come to fruition
Café and guesthouse improved
Hall deteriorating
Increased hoon element
Increased yuppification
Threat of over-development
Sat markets
District become more aware of its natural; and built environment
House burglaries seem more prevalent
Uki looking more amenable / Much neater/ Gentrification in a good way
No longer rural village
Stronger sense of community UKIRA keeps issue at forefront
Greater opportunities to get involved if wish to More community minded
Enhanced community spirit and involvement in community affairs
Healthier busier business community More commerce
Popularity of the place
More interest in creating sustainability and environmental regeneration projects
More professionals moving in
Different people with different ideas/talents
Village centre more a community – buttery, markets / Buttery provided clearer focus and meeting place
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What do you want for the District?
Clean up hoon element – security lighting, speed camera, police under-age drinking / Stop drunk teenagers speeding / alcohol free zone / remove front of tennis shed / More police presence on Fri and Sat / Police station – manned 24 hrs
Traffic calming (not camera) / Speed hump at school / Village bypass / Improved traffic condition ie market day / Bollards around park opposite sportsground / Speed bump at Buttery carpark / Roundabout at buttery / Make first part of Rowlands Creek Road one-way / Street lighting
Paths, cycleways / Sealed footpaths from village to sportsground, Sweetnam Park, Clareville Road / More walkways/bike linking Uki to Mt warning NP, M’bah / Circuit walk around Uki / Footpaths in village / Complete river walk to link sports ground and Sweetnam Park / Pedestrian access throughout village / Proper funding and completion of riverwalk project – more visible infrastructure (signage) / Enhanced access to
Community facilities - Community garden / Community pizza oven and facilities / Seating in George Parker park / Creative playground / Kids playground – sun shelter / Bowling green / Playgroup / Baby change table in new toilets / Childrens’ playground / Restoration of hall / Artisans club (for muso’s, artists, poets) / Pioneer museum / Upgrade sports ground – bowls / Upgrade Uki Hall stage / Stage at Buttery / More rubbish bins / GP
More activities for teens and young adults / Something for teenagers – dance/movie / Affordable accessible youth activities (eg music, art, theatre) / Skate board area / Childrens play area eg in market square / Education programme for kids – Uncle programme / Mentors for lost youth / Clubhouse or Youth Centre to meet friends / terrage playground
Use of crownland for parks, youth activities, amphitheatre, gardens, car parking
Make village more accessible – shops, Hall / Make Uki wheelchair friendly
Local phone directory
New residents Info Pack / New residents kit
CTC website better use – more patronage, better integrated with marketing plan
Community sign for school (timber frame)
Better public transport / Regular bus service to beaches – Pottsville/Kingscliff / Bus service to M’bah tweed Heads / More public transport during day / Public transport or car pooling / Community bus to M’bah all day
Arts festival / More community events
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Further beautification of Uki shopping precinct with landscaping to integrate with other elements / Improved shop facades – particularly general store / Remodel tennis pavilion / Decorate/heritage façade on top of café / Water fountain, bubbler at village square / Improved use at back of shops – river view etc / Old tennis building should go / Street lighting in Norco Street especially river end / Remove fence around Historical Society and integrate into Hall park / Convert tennis shed into performance stage / Underground power lines / Govt money to re-vamp village center / Improved infrastructure – pavements around school / Second clock face on reverse side of memorial / Remove concrete blocks at guesthouse
Village entrance - make more attractive – M’bah end
More bush regeneration / More wildlife habitat Rehabilitate remnant veg on river bank / Enhance environment / Exotic weed eradication on bigger scale / Remove canphours / Retain trees / Tree planning / Weed control
Emphasis on sustainable lifestyle / Solar panels as energy (buttery, hall) / Solar powered village / Convert town into model sustainable village – solar, wind, etc
Signage – speed limits, no through road for Milsons Lane, at creek no camping, no fires / Update brown Uki Trading Post sign at Mt Warning Road / Attractive tourist sign for Uki at Pacific Highway M’bah turn off
River - history/heritage walk / Loop walk river, village and Mitchell Street
Parking better utilized with walkways into Uki / Parking especially market days / More parking / Parking behind school (sealed and marked) /
More shops - retro (music) hot bread, craft type / swap shop /op-shop /
General store could be more alternative / Shop to sell organic milk and bread /
Bakery / Another butchers shop / Somewhere different at weekends to eat instead of just pub / Cafes open at night with live concerts / side-walk café
Lose ‘nimbyesque’ alternative lifestyle
Proper planning provisions that differentiate from high density city living /no subdivision of steep hillside blocks / No more subdivisions / No new village west of Uki / Retain character etc by careful sustainable development / No development that would increase traffic / Not too much development / Stop the development / No unsympathetic development / No more small residential lots as at approach to bray Park / Cap on number of people moving in / No buildings on village green
Wards - Educate community on pros and cons
For whole of Tweed – allow 2nd dwelling on rural properties
Alternative retirement options
Water - No fluoridation of water / Look ahead how we use water – subsidized water tanks / No raising of Clarrie hall dam wall / Town water for Smiths Creek Road
Dum Dum district renamed Uki
Lose the alternative crap
New publican
Variety of social classes and ideas
Ability to sell at front of house
No school drop off at Rowlands Creek
No composting toilets
Reliable power supply
Line marking on Smiths Creek Road
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