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................................................ ........... . . . . . ................................................. ............................. ...... ..... .. ............. ........ ... ..... . .. a �! �" . ro mmmmmmmll ... ................................................... . ...... ........................................................... . ............................................................................................... . ................................................................... . ......... a APO Admhk Gi 1! i ji hiTiel resi ents, g C, i VW ty 'Tno LZ I MW d' rks By Diana Ell Gonzalez Staff Writer "Richfield ended up being No. 1. It edged Shomvilew by a little over I "" Morris saI id. Pe=11L Morris attributed the high score to a sense among residents that, they live In a place with a small-town aunoss pbyre next door, to a large urban area. "It has a lot of the advantages of the small town- neigliborlinew, strong in stitutions like churches and civic or-* ganizations, and residents that really care about the community. All of these combine to make Richfield speo- ciallf Olt he said, Results were based on a telephone sumey of 400 randomly selected resi. denM according to a report done for the city by Decision Resources. Sur. vey results, which were relawd last month, have a 5 percent margin of error. More than nine out of 10 nuidents v high mtjnp to parks; 88 percent ,,cd the ap cc of their neigh'p borhooft 83 percent said they saw '11 QuaUq continued on pap BY Quality Continued "in me ly Richfield as a place with a strong commilunity identity and a sense of naghboriinesso City Manager Jim Prosser said resi- dents" response to the airport noise issue sends a cJear signal that install- 'I in�g a new north-siouth runway would have a negativc etlect on the cityll, "It was verly ironic that information came to us at the same time that Metropolitan Council officials were saying that the loss of 450 homesin a city like Richfield would not be sig-P nificant,"O Prosser said. When questioned about cri'me, many residents saw it on the rise. About, two-rifths, of residents said they be- lieved property crimes had increased in Richfield, and a third said crimes against people also were on the line crease., StarTnbun� r F T T- T T 7 -I"- Y IL 7i A *-0 4 jilt t 4*we am, in a way, Pleal they un- derstand than Iis wort lame. we're heavily marketing our Neighborhood watch Py in' the city 6 wants tesi&%ts to Ft. involved in fighting crime at a ntighborhoOd 1CV- el, Prosw said