1. Population Projection Project
Ali Sherer, Corey Brassard, Kristen Oscarson, Marc Volpicelli, Bashar Shehada, Alan Hall
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2. Ideas for Today and Tomorrow
We need to control the population growth for a better tomorrow. 1
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3. 2 Our Future The projected population in the year 2050 is 75,050.
There will be 1,158 people per square mile. This is approximately three times the current population.
This will lead to a tax increase, pollution problems, urbanization and much more. If we don’t do something soon we will look like New York City!
If our population reaches its expected amount we will become an urban area. 2
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4. Crime Rate
No one even feels safe walking down the street at night knowing that the crime rate has gone up.
On the Coventry/West Warwick line there will be graffiti and gangs roaming the streets.
We will have more robberies, gangs, drug smuggling etc. No one will be safe.
With all the crime and violence, the town will need to hire more police officers, which will raise taxes. 3
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5. Watching Out For One Another
The amount of people that do drugs in Coventry is very low and the kids that grow up and leave this town are usually well-rounded individuals.
The teachers in Coventry really get to know the students well and no matter what each student needs the teacher is always there for them.
With a larger populations everyone won’t know everyone and the education system will definitely not be as good as it is now.
When your kid starts, “hanging out with the wrong crowd,” who will be there to tell you? There will be many more students in classes and teachers won’t have the time to get to know each and every one. 4
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6. Environment
There will need to be many more homes and other things like grocery stores, dumps, fast food restaurants and Walmarts taking up land space.
To make room for these things trees will have to be cut down. When you cut down trees, it ruins the habitat for many species of animals.
Coventry has parks, trees and animals. We almost have the perfect little community. 5
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7. Traffic Congestion
With the expected population Coventry will have to add new roads and widen the current ones.
Coventry will have to buy the needed land to add and widen the roads and then actually build them. This will costs hundreds of thousands of taxpayers dollars.
If the population triples so will the number of cars. Route 3 is currently four lanes wide. With the expected population it will have to be twelve lanes wide. That will take up a lot of space.
Coventry will have three times the amount of current car accidents, making the roads more dangerous and many lives will be lost.
The pollution caused by the cars will also triple in Coventry and this will create smog like in Mexico City. 6
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8. Taxes
I am assuming all of you are aware that if taxes get raised it is very unlikely you will be elected again. No one wants high taxes and the town pays social workers, teachers, firefighters, and police officers to do their jobs.
If the population rises they will need more people to do these jobs costing the taxpayers more money. 7
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9. Stopping the Growth
You can limit how many building permits you send out each year or make it so you have to own at least 2 acres to build a house. We need to keep the population of Coventry small so we don’t end up looking like what we most fear.
Set more laws to limit the growth. 7
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10. Thank You
Thank you for listening to our presentation and what we had to say about the population growth problem in Coventry.
We hope you take our suggestions to the problem seriously and into consideration. 7
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