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Survey #2: Reviewing Design Week Ideas

Thank you for helping shape Plan Jonesboro. In spring 2026, over 800 residents shared their priorities through our first community survey and Design Week activities. This survey invites you to respond to the ideas that emerged during Design Week. More information about the ideas from Design Week as well as the first survey results are available at PlanJonesboro.com

Your feedback will help shape the first draft of Plan Jonesboro, the community’s long-term vision for growth and development. Thank you for your time and input.
Community Priorities
Design Week proposals focus on four main goals. The following questions are related to these goals:
  1. Create a network of vibrant activity centers that support community life, local businesses, and economic development.
  2. Expand housing choice and affordability, and increase reinvestment in established neighborhoods.
  3. Improve transportation access with more connected streets, congestion mitigation, and safe walking and biking opportunities.
  4. Enhance parks, recreation, and public spaces to improve quality of life and strengthen community identity.
1.How well do these goals reflect what you want for Jonesboro’s future?
2.Which goal is the most important to you?
3.Do you feel anything important is missing from these goals?
Activity Centers
A central Design Week idea is creating a network of “Activity Centers” throughout the city — places where shops, services, gathering spaces, and (in some cases) housing are concentrated, so residents can reach daily needs closer to home and enjoy a variety of places to visit and linger all around Jonesboro. The plan proposes four scales of activity centers:
  • Regional Center: A major destination with shopping, dining, entertainment, jobs, and services that attract residents from across Jonesboro and nearby cities.
  • Community Center: A large mix of businesses, services, restaurants, and gathering places that serves much of the city.
  • Neighborhood Center: A walkable area with local businesses, services, and public spaces that serve nearby neighborhoods.
  • Neighborhood Node: A small cluster of shops within walking distance of nearby homes.
4.Overall, how much do you support a network of activity centers like this?
5.Several activity centers were identified during Design Week. Which of these centers would you most likely visit or use if activated?
6.What would be the most important features in a successful activity center?
7.Which actions or investments to grow activity centers do you think are appropriate for the city to take?
Housing and Neighborhoods
The first community survey showed a strong demand for affordable homeownership and a desire for reinvestment in established neighborhoods. Additional sentiments were shared about the characteristics of new development areas during Design Week. Earlier this year, a housing market study was completed which shows a need for more types of homes, price points, and development formats. To support these needs and desires, the land use plan developed during Design Week would allow a wider mix of housing — including smaller homes, townhomes, duplexes, and small apartment buildings — primarily within and near activity centers and the city’s core area near downtown. The following questions relate to these sentiments and needs.
8.A 2026 study has shown that more diverse housing types (townhomes, duplexes, small multifamily) are needed in Jonesboro. Where do you feel they should be located?
9.A recurring concern is that new subdivisions feel “barren” and “unplanned” — which aspects of new development feels like it is not “of Jonesboro”?
10.How strongly do you support the following neighborhood design principles for new neighborhoods and major redevelopment areas?
Strongly Support
Somewhat Support
Neutral
Somewhat Oppose
Strongly Oppose
Connected street networks with multiple ways in and out
Streets designed for slower speeds and safer crossings
Sidewalks on both sides of neighborhood streets
Trees planted along streets and in open spaces
Walking and biking connections to nearby centers and parks
Small parks, greens, or open spaces within walking distance
A mix of housing types within the same general area
Integration of neighborhood-serving businesses
Mobility
Transportation was the most-discussed topic in the first community survey. Opportunities for improvement were explored during Design Week, including improving congested intersections, extending and repairing sidewalks, adding bike lanes and multi-use paths, filling street connection gaps, adjusting public transportation routes, and, where appropriate, reducing vehicle lanes to reduce speeds and make room for people walking and biking. The following questions are related to potential transportation improvements.
11.How would you prioritize the following transportation directions for Plan Jonesboro?
Low Priority
Moderate Priority
High Priority
Completing missing sidewalks between neighborhoods and destinations
Adding safer pedestrian crossings on major roads
Building more trail and greenway connections
Expanding bicycle facilities on key routes
Creating more street connections so traffic is not forced onto a few major roads
Designing major corridors to better balance safety, access, and traffic flow
Improving congested intersections for safer and more reliable travel
Improving transit access to jobs, services, and activity centers
12.Many residents expressed interest in walking and biking more often. What are the most significant barriers to walking and biking more?
13.Some roads carry less traffic than they were originally designed for. Do you support redesigning those roads to add sidewalks, bike lanes, and landscaping?
Parks & Recreation
Building upon the city’s 2024 Parks and Recreation Master Plan, opportunities to fill service area gaps and to connect parks with walking and biking routes were identified during Design Week. The following questions are related to potential future parks.
14.Which of the areas identified in the 2024 plan should be the highest priorities for park investment?
15.What kinds of public spaces are most important to add near activity centers and neighborhoods?
About You
These optional questions help us understand how perspectives may vary across the community and provide an opportunity for unstructured input.
16.Have you participated in any previous Plan Jonesboro engagement activities?
17.Is there an idea from Design Week that you strongly support, strongly oppose, or that you would like to share specific input about?
18.Are there any ideas, concerns, or recommendations not covered in this survey that you’d like to share?
Jonesboro Planning Districts
19.Using the district map above, which area of Jonesboro do you live in?
20.Which age group are you in?
21.Which best describes your ethnicity?
Thank you for shaping Jonesboro's next chapter.
If you have more specific input to share about Activity Centers, please follow this link to an additional, map-based survey.

Your responses will be consulted as the draft plan is developed this summer. To stay involved, learn more, or share this survey with others, visit PlanJonesboro.com.
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