DMC Plan Update: Capturing Opportunities and Relating Challenges

Welcome Back—Let’s Continue to Delve Opportunities and Challenges

Earlier this summer, you helped us provide insight setting the groundwork for the DMC Plan Update. Now, we’re inviting you to take the next step.

This second survey, about 6 minutes, continues the conversation, with refinements based on what we heard from you and others across the community. We’re exploring the refined drivers that will shape the DMC Plan Update:

Health Innovation as an Economic Engine
Definition: We will leverage our unique scale and Mayo Clinic adjacencies and lean-in on health tech to drive innovation and economic growth— by supporting new ideas, businesses, and careers that improve lives and strengthen our economy.
Health Excellence as an Attractor: We will emphasize proximity to health excellence as a reason people choose to live in, work in, and visit Rochester by strengthening our reputation as America’s City for Health, wellness, community, and quality of life.
Health in the Built Environment: Definition: We will invest in infrastructure projects that inventively center physical and mental well-being and create safe, healthy, and sustainable places for all people.

Your insights will help guide local planning and design efforts, including work with the Mayo Clinic and other community partners. Thank you for being part of this journey toward a healthier, more connected Rochester.

Health Innovation as an Economic Engine: We will leverage our unique scale and Mayo Clinic adjacencies and lean-in on health tech to drive innovation and economic growth— by supporting new ideas, businesses, and careers that improve lives and strengthen our economy.

1. How do you see health innovation creating opportunity in Rochester?

2. What might get in the way of Rochester growing as a health innovation hub?

Health Excellence as an Attractor: We will emphasize proximity to health excellence as a reason people choose to live in, work in, and visit Rochester by strengthening our reputation as America’s City for Health, wellness, community, and quality of life.

3. What makes Rochester a place people want to come and stay because of health and quality of life?

4. What could we do to better showcase Rochester’s strengths?

Health in the Built Environment: We will invest in infrastructure projects that inventively center physical and mental well-being and create safe, healthy, and sustainable places for all people.

5. What types of places and spaces, buildings, or transportation investments in the DMC would most support your health and well-being — physically, mentally, or socially?

6. What’s missing from Rochester’s built environment that would make it feel safer, more welcoming, or easier for everyone to use — no matter their age, income, or ability?

7. What neighborhood or area of Rochester do you live in?
Helps us understand where you live - Downtown, NW, SE, Lowertown, etc.

8. What is your age group? *This question is required.

9. What is your connection to Rochester? *This question is required.

I live here
I work here
I go to school here
I visit regularly
Other - Write In Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

11. Which of the following best describes your cultural or ethnic background?
Select all that apply *This question is required.

12. What languages do you speak at home? *This question is required.

13. How long have you lived in Rochester? *This question is required.

14. Would you like to stay in touch? Leave us your name and email address and we'll keep you in the loop!

First Name

Email Address

DMC Plan Update: Capturing Opportunities and Relating Challenges

Welcome to America's City for Health Vision Survey