City Manager Katie Lichtig reported at last night’s council meeting on the results of a random survey of 400 city residents.

An amazing 97 percent rated SLO as an “excellent” or “very good” place to live. (That’s up two percent from the city’s 2005 survey.)

Eighty-one percent are optimistic that the city will stay as great in the future or get even better, and 72 percent rated SLO city government as “excellent” or “very good,” which is up four percent from the last survey.

This high satisfaction rating has very positive economic development implications.