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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - MARCH 10. 1997 3 . Councilmember Aplikowski requested clarification that Highway 96 within Arden Hills was not scheduled to be completed until the year 2000. Mr. Stafford replied the section from Highway 10 to Lexington A venue is scheduled for completion in 2000. The portion from Old Highway 8 to Highway 10 is scheduled for completion in 1998. Mayor Probst indicated the City had asked for this reconstruction work to be moved forward on the schedule, and stated his preference to continue doing so. Mayor Probst further inquired if there would be an overlay from Highway 10 to Lexington Avenue. Mr. Stafford stated that would be the case. A. Decision Resources Presentation of Community Survey Rcsults Mr. Bill Morris of Decision Resources, Ltd., gave a presentation of the recent Arden Hills Community Survey, which his company recently completed for the City. This study contains the results of a telephone survey of 403 randomly selected residents of the City of Arden Hills. The survey responses were gathered between January 9 - 23, 1997. The average interview took 26 minutes, and there was a refusal rate of 3%. In general, random samples such as this yield results projectable to the entire universe of Arden Hills residents within a :!:.5.0 percentage points in 95 out of 100 cases. Mr. Morris presented the results of the following questions/responses: . Quality of Life Ninety-seven percent rated the quality of life in Arden Hills as either excellent or good. This is higher than the suburban norm and places Arden Hills among the strongest ratings within the Metropolitan Area. Most Liked Thing about Community Location was rated the highest at 38%. Also scoring high in this category were high quality schools, available housing, open spaces, and well-run community. Lcast Liked Thing about Community Fourteen percent disliked nothing about the City. This group is known as "Boosters", and, while the level of this group has dropped since the last survey, it is still approximately twice as high as the suburban norm. Other things mentioned in this category were Unsure (22%), Lack of City Services (15%), High Taxes (10%) and Traffic Congestion (10%). Sense of Community Fifty-nine percent reported an excellent or good rating in this category, which is an exceptional number for the Metropolitan Area. . Value of City Services in Relation to Taxes Eighty-three percent rated this issue as excellent or good, which exceeds the suburban norm for this category.