Getting Started…Making Choices
What Do You Know?
Getting Started…Making Choices
Communities are important in shaping our lives. Participants will review local articles on land use.
They will relate the articles to land use principles and compare issues with other participants. They will analyze what they know and what they need to know. They will develop a concept map for studying land use.
Questions
- How do communities influence our lives?
- What are the six basic principles of land use planning?
- How do your local issues relate to the principles?
- What information do you know and what information do you need to better understand the issues to become more involved?
Preparation
- Provide extra articles from the local papers.
- Place “Land Use Principles” posters around the room.
- Prepare a flip chart or projection of the “Need to Know” chart.
- Copy and distribute the Concept Map to each participant and display it on a flip chart.
Procedure
