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While Santa Clarita residents shared general satisfaction with city services in a recent poll conducted by a consultant, most residents expressed varying levels of concerns about the area’s growth and public safety, per the results shared by the city. When asked about the most important issue facing residents in an open-ended fashion, most said public safety, with 23.7% of respondents indicating that was their primary concern.

However, overdevelopment/growth (18%) and traffic congestion (17.8%), which are quite closely connected for most, were Nos. 2 and 3.



Homelessness was the fourth-ranked answer at (13.6%) in the poll that was conducted just two weeks before the city celebrated the opening of its first year-round homeless shelter on May 20. The fifth answer was “not sure/can’t think of anything specific (13.

2%),” followed by affordable housing (8.9%). Limiting growth also was the No.

1 answer in 2022, while the pandemic year of 2020 had people respond “not sure” as their No. 1 issue, and in 2018, it was once again limiting growth. Those who were happy said the most common reason given was “Beautiful, clean city, no graffiti, well-landscaped,” which was listed by 17.

1% The top-two issues for those who were unhappy with the city were listed as “Slow, inadequate response to resident needs, requests” at 14.9% and “Public safety, need more emergency personnel, police service” at 11.2%.

When residents were given a list of priorities and asked to rank them.

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