We want to know what you think!

Calamus is participating in the 2021 Community Visioning Program. Iowa State University is gathering information from community members to learn your opinions on how to improve the community’s landscape through transportation enhancements. The goal of this project is to develop a landscape plan that illustrates the vision of Calamus. Your input is an important part of this process and your ideas about community design and enhancement are valuable to the Calamus visioning committee.

Join us for virtual focus groups

In this participatory assessment, we want to find out which factors and conditions affect transportation use in Calamus, where these factors and conditions are most prevalent, and how they influence route and transportation choices locally. Because residents have the best knowledge of how Calamus’s transportation system works, we use focused, small-group conversations, mapping, and photos of the best and worst to understand local transportation. We conduct focus groups with a variety of user types, including parents, youth, older adults, people with mobility issues, and active recreationists, to identify factors that affect transportation use. We will be conducting virtual focus groups with these user types of the following dates and times:

February 23, 5:00 pm    Older Adults (65 years old and older)
February 23, 5:00 pm    Parents
February 23, 6:30 pm    Active Recreationists
February 23, 6:30 pm    People with mobility issues

February 25, 5:00 pm    Steering Committee Members

March 3, 5:00 pm    Youth 12 and younger (with Wheatland youth)
March 3, 6:30 pm    Youth 13 and older (with Wheatland youth)

Adult Sign Up

Adults who want to participate in a focus group can sign up by clicking “Sign Up For Adults” below. Because this is a research project, Iowa State is required to obtain digital written consent from participants, which is included in the sign-up process.

Youth Sign Up

Youth who want to participate in a focus group can sign up by clicking “Sign Up For Youth” below. In order to participate, youth must give digital written assent and their parents must give digital written parental consent. Assent and parental consent are included in the sign-up process