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Limitations

  • Site Selection - Initial identification of survey sites was completed by the Town Planner. Using the expertise of the town planner for initial identification is not a problem in and of itself. However, the forum at which comments were solicited and additional site suggestions were sought was poorly attended and those in attendence did not fully engage in this part of the process.

  • Insufficient Publicity - The most common complaint about the Prioritization Project was that respondents thought there was a gross lack of publicity to inform the public about the survey. Respondents wondered why they hadn't seen an advertisement in the local newspapers, why the town newsletter didn't mention it, and why they did not hear anything about it on the radio. Had the town put more effort into publicizing the study, it would have had garnered more participation.

  • Sample Size - Had a larger portion of the community participated in the survey, more extensive analyses could have been completed. For example, the analysis to gauge how large landholders prioritize land could not be run for lack of variability in the sample size.
 

 

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