Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: Schools, shopping centers, professional services/offices, along Bengal Blvd, Fort Union Blvd, and Highland Drive within Cottonwood Heights. Whitmore Library. Cottonwood Heights City offices, Cottonwood Heights Recreation Center, Cottonwood Heights city limits. Holladay Intermountain Clinic. Bus service from Bengal Blvd and surrounding areas to connect us to downtown, TRAX, other bus lines. Churches, not only LDS but also St Thomas Moore, the Muslim Communicty Center on Fort Union, South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Canyons Church, and the lovely, intimately-sized Mountain Springs Community Church. Parks: Crestwood, Bywater, Butler, Golden Hills, Anzac.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Your response: Growing Muslim community, politically more diverse, flexible and open-minded than other areas of the county. Our history includes Butlerville. Danish road was part of the route the Mormon Pioneers used to haul granite for the Salt Lake Temple.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: Tourism, especially the ski industry affects residents here. We are very interested in preserving our canyons, developing walkable and bikable routes in the area, and keeping this area beautiful and peaceful for those who live here--- not just following the dollars.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: My area has offered greater support to moderate Democratic candidates over the 30 years I've lived here. We aren't pleased with the way the 2010 redistricting process separated us from other areas in the county with similar concerns. MODERATE candidates are SORELY NEEDED to bring ideas forth that the greater proportion of Salt Lake County can get behind. I never thought I'd be campaigning and donating to candidates living 10 minutes away, who I cannot vote for because of these boundaries. The Southeast of Salt Lake County in becoming increasingly diverse. Urban SL County should not be divided between 4 districts that include areas very different from those of urban and suburban SL Co.