Increasing the number of public areas such as parks and playgrounds also does not rank highly on the list of priorities for Mid-Hudson Valley residents. This issue ranks sixteenth out of nineteen issues receiving the same rank it had in 2002. Overall, it gets an average rating of just 6.4 out of 10 although 18% of residents believe it deserves a score of 10.
Increasing the number of public areas does not rank among residents’ top ten priorities in any of the seven counties. Among the counties, it receives its highest average rating of 6.7 from residents in Dutchess County. Dutchess County residents rated increasing public areas with an average score of 6.2 five years ago.
