AIDA wants community’s opinions

THE Aireys Inlet and District Association (AIDA) is surveying community attitudes to issues such as planning, the environment, tourism and future opportunities and challenges.

AIDA has run these surveys previously in 1990, 1999 and 2015.

Through the survey, launched late last month, AIDA hopes to gauge the community’s attitudes and change in attitudes over the years and enable the association to effectively interact with the local and state governments.

The association says that with the creation of the Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority, the survey results will be even more important.

The 24-question survey covers the following topics:

• Planning
• Environmentally sensitive development
• Local business
• Environmental preservation
• Tourism
• Recreational opportunities
• Future challenges and opportunities.

AIDA president Charlotte Allen said between 200 and 300 people completed the survey in 2015.

“The questions are broadly similar this year – we’ve updated a few and left a few out – so we can get a longitudinal understanding of community attitudes and how they’ve changed.”

She said the response to the 2020 survey was encouraging, as 230 people had already completed it as of Sunday night.

The survey, which takes less than 10 minutes to complete, is open to everyone in the Aireys Inlet community – full-time and part-time residents, visitors, traders, local associations, AIDA members and non-members.

AIDA has also set up posters with QR codes to the survey in places across Aireys Inlet, so people can easily get access to the survey on their smartphone.

It will be open until the first week in December, and the results will be shared in AIDA’s newsletters, on its website and Facebook page.

To fill out the survey, head to surveymonkey.com/r/DT7VB3J or follow the link at facebook.com/AIDAaireysinlet.