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Homeowner Perceptions, Barriers, and Intentions to Install a Living Shoreline 1st Survey Interest Form
OMB Control Number: 2030-0051 Expiration Date: 9/30/2026

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Participant Information Sheet & Consent
Homeowner Perceptions, Barriers, and Intentions to Install a Living Shoreline
Researcher: Dr. Blake Simmons, Tampa Bay Estuary Program

You are invited to complete a questionnaire about your perceptions of living shorelines.
Purpose
The purpose of this research is to collect crowdsourced data from homeowners in the Don CeSar neighborhood about
their opinions of living shorelines and their interest in installing living shorelines on their property. The results will be used
to identify key barriers, motivations, and other important factors that influence the adoption of living shorelines.
What is involved?
If you agree to participate, you will be asked to complete a short questionnaire before and after today’s presentation. This
should take about 5-7 minutes. After this is completed, we will send you three short follow-up questionnaires over the next
12 months to track how your interests and opinions of living shorelines might change over time.
Privacy and confidentiality
To match your answers to the questionnaire today with your answers in future questionnaires, we will ask you for your
property address and/or email address. The lead researcher, Dr. Blake Simmons, is the only person who will have access
to this information, and we will never publish or share your contact information with anyone. Once the study is complete,
your contact information will be permanently redacted and deleted from the records to ensure your responses remain
anonymous and no one will be able to identify you.
Is there likely to be a benefit to me?
We plan to use this data to better understand what is important to homeowners when considering installing a living
shoreline on their property. We can’t guarantee that you get any direct benefit, but the results of this research will help us
design better programs to increase shoreline enhancements across Tampa Bay.
Participation in this research is entirely voluntary. You can stop at any time without explanation. There will be no
penalties or loss of benefits to you if you do not participate or decide to stop once you start.
If you would like more information about the research, contact Dr. Blake Simmons: bsimmons@tbep.org
This collection of information is approved by OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. (OMB
Control No. 2030-0051). Responses to this collection of information are voluntary. An agency may not conduct or sponsor,
and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control
number. The public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information is estimated to be 10 minutes per
response. Send comments on the Agency’s need for this information, the accuracy of the provided burden estimates and
any suggested methods for minimizing respondent burden to Director, Information Engagement Division, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (2821T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20460. Include the OMB
control number in any correspondence. Do not send the completed form to this address.
Consent
If you understand these issues, would like to participate in this research, and are over 18 years old, please select ‘I agree’
below and complete the questionnaire that follows.

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I agree
I do not agree

EPA Form Number: 6700-027

Homeowner Perceptions, Barriers, and Intentions to Install a Living Shoreline 1st Survey Interest Form
OMB Control Number: 2030-0051 Expiration Date: 9/30/2026

Please remind us of who you are by entering your property address or email.
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Don’t worry, we will never publish or share your contact information with anyone. Only the lead researcher, Dr. Blake
Simmons, will have access to this information, and all identifying information will be redacted once our study is complete.
Property:

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House number and Street

Email:

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After you’ve received your personalized living shoreline design plans for your property, answer the following
questions to let us know what you think of them.
Q1. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statements below:
Strongly
disagree

Disagree

Neither agree
nor disagree

Agree

Strongly
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The designs are very interesting to me.

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The designs are attractive or aesthetically pleasing.

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The designs look similar to what I expected.

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The designs are confusing to me.

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The designs enhanced my understanding of a living shoreline.

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The designs will make it easier for me to get a living shoreline
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The next set of questions pertain to your experience throughout this project – including the presentations,
meetings, and updates sent to you. We’d like to hear your feedback on what you liked about this experience, how
informative or useful it was to you, and any questions or recommendations you have for future projects.
Q2. Overall, how would you rate the content presented during the public meetings in terms of how informative, useful, and
relevant they were to you? Circle or fill in the number of stars (out of five) you would give. Whole or half-stars are OK.
Informative
Useful
Relevant
Q3. Overall, what did you like most about this project? Need more room? You can also write on the back of this paper.
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Q4. Do you have any recommendations for how we could improve this project in the future (e.g., content or materials
provided, frequency of meetings or updates, etc.)?
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Q5. Do you have any remaining questions that you feel have not been answered?
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EPA Form Number: 6700-027

Homeowner Perceptions, Barriers, and Intentions to Install a Living Shoreline 1st Survey Interest Form
OMB Control Number: 2030-0051 Expiration Date: 9/30/2026

Finally, we’d like to see if this experience changed your perceptions of living shorelines for your property. Please
answer the following questions, and we’ll compare your answers today with the answers you provided at the
beginning of this project.
Q6. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statements below:
Strongly
disagree

Disagree

Neither agree
nor disagree

Agree

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Living shorelines could effectively reduce flood damage to my
property.

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Installing a living shoreline would be too time-consuming for me.

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Living shorelines would increase my personal safety.

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Living shorelines would decrease the value of my property.

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There are better solutions to reducing my property’s flood risk
than installing a living shoreline.

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Living shorelines would increase the beauty of my property.

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The cost of living shorelines are too high for me to install them on
my property.

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I am confident that I could get a living shoreline installed on my
property if I really wanted to.

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The costs of a living shoreline will outweigh any benefits to my
property.

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The people who are important to me would approve of a living
shoreline on my property.

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If I wanted to install a living shoreline at my property, I wouldn’t
know where to start.

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Even if I wanted a living shoreline on my property, I don’t have
much control over the decision.

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I am interested in learning more about installing a living shoreline
on my property.

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In the next two months, I intend to request a permit to install a
living shoreline on my property.

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Thank you very much for your participation in this project! Your responses are crucial in helping us
better understand homeowners’ opinions about shoreline modifications so that we can provide more
opportunities to increase the resiliency of coastal properties in Tampa Bay.
We will send you one last follow-up email or letter in about two months. In the meantime, if you have
any questions or additional feedback you’d like to share, please feel free to contact Dr. Blake
Simmons at bsimmons@tbep.org or (727) 893-2765.

EPA Form Number: 6700-027