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Lesson Three: Planning in your own backyard

Lesson Three: Planning in your own backyard. Lesson Essential Question: How do planners organize data and use regional analysis in their work?. Activating Prior Knowledge. Which is easier, to follow a plan you have made yourself or a plan someone else has made? Why? Work in pairs

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Lesson Three: Planning in your own backyard

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  1. Lesson Three: Planning in your own backyard • Lesson Essential Question: How do planners organize data and use regional analysis in their work?

  2. Activating Prior Knowledge • Which is easier, to follow a plan you have made yourself or a plan someone else has made? Why? • Work in pairs • Generate a list of things that must be present in a plan so others can follow it

  3. Research • Access and study maps provided for residents of their local city or county government planning and zoningdepartment. • Go to New Castle Zoning Maps • Take time to become familiar with the detailed map legends and color schemes. • On the map - Locate Christiana High School and your home. (Found at the corner of maps 46, 47, 52 & 53) • In your notebook determine the land use planned for neighborhoods around CHS and the area around your home. Be sure to include the date of the plan and the time span it will be in force.

  4. Research • Answer in notebook - • Who made the present land use plan for their city or county? • Using the resources available individual planners, policymakers, businesses, interest groups and individual citizens who had input into the plan. • What can they find out about the planning process? • What might each “stakeholder” hope to gain from participating in the planning process?

  5. Research • In your notebook - • Evaluate the land use plan based on the attributes you posted at the beginning of the lesson as ideal for a plan. • Does the present county or city plan get an “A”, a “B”- or perhaps an “F”? • What recommendations can you make for the plan itself? • What recommendations can you make for processes to follow?

  6. Milford, DE • Read the two articles on planning in Milford, DE • Take notes in your notebook • Answer the questions in your notebook • Who were the participants in this process? • What steps were included in developing a plan according to the articles?

  7. Class Work – Must be turned in • Choose one of these viewpoints: agricultural, commercial developer, naturalist. • What features would you want to see included in a land use plan for your county? • What features would you want to see restricted or eliminated from the list of approved land uses?

  8. Homework • Read Standard 4 • Answer questions

  9. Checking for Understanding • Why do citizens participate in planning for future land use? • Answer and turn in

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