Better Alternatives to Automobile Transportation
Includes improved public transportation system, bicycle and pedestrian friendly streets, improved roadways (landscape, lighting, sidewalks, bus stops), and promotion of alternatives to the automobile.

Engaged Community and Responsive Government
Includes involvement of citizens in the community, volunteering, neighborhood participation, responsiveness of government organizations to citizen input, and the connection between government and the people.

Safe Neighborhoods
Includes how safe people feel in their neighborhoods, crime, policing, and risk perceptions.

Caring, Healthy Families and Youth
Includes opportunities, services, and conditions that support Tucson's families and youth.

Excellent Public Education
Includes the quality of education at all levels - youth to adult, as well as vocational, lifeskills, cultural, and civic training.

Infill and Reinvestment, Not Urban Sprawl
Includes well-planned growth, the management of sprawl, and development in the city's core, rather than on the periphery.

Abundant Urban Green Space and Recreation Areas
Includes recreation and green space within the city, including neighborhood and regional parks, common space, community gardens, bike and walking paths, linear and river parks, trees, and urban landscaping.

Protected Natural Desert Environment
Includes protection of the Sonoran Desert eco-system and protection of washes, hillsides, open space, and wildlife.

Better Paying Jobs
Includes wages, job quality, job diversity, and an improved standard of living.

Clean Air and Quality Water
Includes reduced pollution and provision of clean, potable water.

People-Oriented Neighborhoods
Includes designing new neighborhoods and investing in old neighborhoods to promote a mix of commercial and residential uses, a pedestrian focus, landscaping and aesthetics, and interaction among residents.

Respected Historic and Cultural Resources
Includes the preservation and celebration of local landmarks, buildings, neighborhoods, archeological treasures, open spaces, cultures, and traditions that make Tucson unique.

Quality Job Training
Includes education, training, and skill development that lead to high quality, living wage jobs.

Reduced Poverty and Greater Equality of Opportunity
Includes the fair distribution of resources, creating opportunities to overcome poverty, and social and economic inequality.

Strong Local Businesses
Includes the local economy, particularly small, Tucson-based businesses.

Efficient Use of Natural Resources
Includes conservation of resources and use of sustainable energy sources.

Successful Downtown
Includes the cultural and commercial aspects of the city center.