{"id":50387,"date":"2021-04-01T00:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/?p=50387"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:15:23","slug":"aida-survey-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/news\/aida-survey-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Responses to AIDA\u2019s survey revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE Aireys Inlet and District Association (AIDA) has again canvassed the town\u2019s residents and holidaymakers about what makes the area great and what needs to be done to keep it that way.<\/p>\n

The association ran its Community Opinion Survey late last year, and received 398 responses with more than 2,600 individual comments.<\/p>\n

These results add to the longitudinal data AIDA collected in 1983, 1990, 1999 and 2015.<\/p>\n

In her introduction to the 2020 survey, AIDA<\/a> president Charlotte Allen wrote the association was particularly interested in hearing from people in the community who were not AIDA members but who wished to have their say, which was the case for more than half of the respondents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe survey response rate was particularly pleasing (as too was the high positive response to the idea of surveys as a mechanism for community engagement around critical issues and decisions),\u201d Ms Allen wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was even more pleasing was to find that the wider community\u2019s attitudes are very much aligned with those of AIDA members, meaning there is strong support in the community to protect and preserve the low-key, coastal village atmosphere of our townships and our environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The survey report is divided into six themes showing the community\u2019s responses to:<\/p>\n