Assignment Directions: Research the planning procedures and land use plans for your community. Conduct an Internet search for your city or region's planning commission or department. You should look for an agency with one of the following names:

Planning Department
Planning & Zoning Department
Neighborhood Planning & Zoning Department
Community Development & Planning
Planning & Development Services
Department of City Planning
Refine your search to find information about your community's comprehensive and zoning plans, permit application process, and other information and procedures. Determine what steps you would need to take to build a new structure, business, or development in your community. Why are these steps important in ensuring the appropriate development for your community?

Now, use a map to plan your own city or community. What do you think would be required to have a good place for people to live, work, and play? Remember to keep social justice, equity, and environmental protection in mind as well. Consider the natural resources and economic basis for your proposed community.

Assignment Guidelines:
You will submit your community plan and a 300-word essay, either digitally or printed, to your teacher on the submission date specified. You may work with a partner or group if desired.

Your response must:

contain approximately 300 words describing:
your current community's planning department, comprehensive plan, planning structure, and planning procedures;
the components that you think your new proposed city will need for the health and success of its citizens; and
the natural resources and economic basis of your proposed city or community.
Be original and avoid plagiarism. Be accurate and have correct spelling and grammar in your response.
Use details and information from the lesson as support. Cite other research sources.
Contain a comprehensive plan map of your proposed city or community. This must include land use zones for a variety of residential, business (commercial), and industrial zones. Needed infrastructure such as government offices, streets, highways, water resources, sewage treatment, solid waste disposal (landfill, etc.), must be included. You should attempt to provide for social equity and environmental protection, considering human needs and wants while also conserving natural resources. Your plan should allow for future growth and development.
Submission Requirements:
Submit your response as a digital file to your teacher by the submission date specified.

Question # 1
Long Text (essay)
Submit your plan of an ideal community in a 300-word essay.