To Build or Not To Build
Reginald Hawkins and Kody Harris
To build
We believe that they should build the The
master-planned community that will bring
high-quality homes and schools into the city,
in addition to a park, lake, and recreational
area.
evidence
As shown in the graph with the recent
habitat destruction in the area the water
supply in the town has had a sudden
increase, so continuing the “destruction”
could help benefit the town with more
available water to help accommodate for
these new homes and buildings.
Evidence
Adding the new community wouldn't
affect spring and grand lake as much
as it is already naturally being
affected, shown on the graph in the
last 7 years spring lakes DO level has
decreased by 3.9 levels and grand
lake has increased by .8 levels since
2010, adding another lake would
decrease the recreational use of the
spring lake which could help letting
the lake recover.
Year
DO Level for Spring Lake
DO Level for Grand Lake
2010
8.3
10.1
2011
8.4
10
2012
7.5
10.2
2013
7.3
9.3
2014
6.5
11.8
2015
5.8
9.8
2016
5.2
9.2
2017
4.8
10.9
Evidence
With building this community yes the
forest will have to be cut down and the
population of pine trees in the city will
greatly be affected with the decrease in
population since 2010 going from 1.4
thousand to 0.4 thousand in 2017,
freeing up the forrest gives them more
available land for commercial, housing,
and agricultural purposes
Year
Number of Pine Trees in
Neighboring City (in
thousands)
Number of Pine Trees
Statewide (in millions)
2010
1.4
0.5
2011
1.6
0.8
2012
1.4
0.5
2013
0.6
0.6
2014
0.4
0.3
2015
0.4
0.25
2016
0.5
0.2
2017
0.4
0.4
reasoning
Overall building these new homes would also mean new schools and with that it
would have many benefits for the community like controlling the local evacice
species populations in the area, finding more homes for families, creating stable
neighborhoods, better education, more local jobs available, and most importantly
the town gains more available land which helps boost economic strength.
Would the construction of this master-planned community impact the carrying capacity of
the state’s ecosystem?
Yes building the master planned community would affect the entire states
ecosystem, but the overall benefits from making this community would level out
the effects from the carrying capacity in the environment, taking away habitats
would largely affect multiple predator prey relationships and would affect almost
the entire food chain, but on the upside building the community benefits everyone