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Scott Herhold Case Study

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Author Scott Herhold, briefly talks about the importance of why we should not abide to those developers who want the vast land owned by San Jose-Evergreen Community College District. As of now, SJECCD is seeking ways to find funds beyond property taxes to fund Evergreen Valley College. However, there is two sides of this situation, the people who is against it and the people who is up for it. The purpose of the demand from the developers is to expand the shopping district that is nearby EVC. For those who approves it, EVC will be funded $1.5 million a year from leasing the land to the developer. But for those who are against it, they want to use the land for educational purposes such as sports. In addition, there would be an inevitable …show more content…

The idea of expanding the shopping center sounds promising, however, the finished project may lead to inevitable problems. Personally, I would want to avoid future problems such as compacting the area and possibly introduce a much busy traffic than usual. Another reason to preserve the land for EVC, is that the land should be used only for school purposes such as sports. In addition to that, we can use the land to also preserve a new building for the community of EVC. With that being said, I trust that I would prevent unnecessary traffics, the land will be used for educational purposes and it may be another idea to put a new building for the community of …show more content…

It is better to prevent this than having more traffic than usual. With that being said, the community is already compacted with people and if we were to allow the developer to expand the shopping district, that would only lead to a much compacted and confined place in such a small area. For example, there is a lot of parking in EVC, therefore by expanding a shopping district, it would only give access to unwanted visitors to park in EVC grounds. Thus making EVC a much busy traffic than usual. Additionally, the important factor of preserving that land is to be used for educational purposes. Ideas such as students having access to use the land for sports. Since we are able to use that land for educational purposes, we are able to expand our community by creating more sports rather than having a set or limited amount of sports EVC can have. With that being said, we are able to put many great ideas for that 27 acres of land. For this reason, it would lead to many creations of sports for that

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