When the Metropolitan Planning Council needed feedback on their planning initiative for the Logan Square Corridor, they turned to Textizen. Textizen is a text based survey tool that delivers real time results for government agencies seeking to get citizen feedback.
Smart Chicago provided access to our Textizen account, allowing them to use their services for free under our Civic Works Project.
Logan Square, photo by Steve Vance
For this survey, MPC asked several questions regarding development near the Logan Square CTA stop. About 200 people filled out the survey, with public results being posted here. According to MPC, about 60 percent of text respondents consistently responded that they had not attended the most recent meeting. This suggests that the text polling reached a different audience than the meetings themselves. Seventy five percent of respondents found the text polling valuable for this public input experience.
You can read the entire report here.
If you’re interested in using Textizen take a look at our Developer Resource program.
