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Helping or
Hurting the Community?
Our community is expanding
rapidly. Builders in the area are tearing down one older house
and putting two in its place. Just last year, the city sold
Newland Park to a developer who bulldozed the play area and park
benches in order to put up 18 houses. How do you feel about the
changes in your neighborhood? How are these changes
impacting our community? This is your chance to voice your
opinion.
After class discussion and
searching the Internet for resources and
information, choose one aspect of this issue that interests you most to
develop into a project of your choice. You need to design a
focused project for a specific audience. We'll talk more about
the options you have in class.
Resources
City of Burbank
http://www.burbankil.gov/home.htm
Municipal Code of Burbank
http://library7.municode.com/gateway.dll/IL/illinois/3265?f=templates&fn=default.htm&npus
This document contains the rules and
general ordinaces for building in
our city.
City-Data.com
http://www.city-data.com/city/Burbank-Illinois.html
General city information
Daily Southtown Newspaper
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/index/dsindex.html
News
Stories from other communities
Willow Glen
http://www.svcn.com/archives/wgresident/04.21.99/teardown-9916.html
Romeo, Michigan
http://www.detnews.com/2005/macomb/0502/23/B05-98033.htm
Barrington
http://www.eastbayri.com/story/368943505599383.php
Glencoe
http://www.jetsetmodern.com/bigheadache.htm
Naperville
http://www.5starsnews.com/home-improvements/83969.htm
Add any resources you find particulary helpful to our list by emailing
me with the info. I will update our list daily.
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URL Address
Short Desription of the type of info presented