Zoning

With the landmark figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and cases such as Brown vs. Board of Education, Americans tend to consider segregation as a relic of a past and shameful age. In reality, the passage of the Civil Rights Act simply halted de jure discrimination (segregation imposed by the government), but de facto segregation (segregation without a legal requirement) still exists. American views of race and religion have systemically disenfranchised minorities. Look no further than the…

" Rebecca if you don 't make your reading goal, you 're going to fail." When I was around the fourth grade my love for reading was non existence; school had done that. Reading all those boring scientific reports and stories had gotten to me. I then thought reading was a chore. Then let 's add to the fact that there were those pointless reading goals we had to complete. No, thank you, it was required if you wanted to get a good grade and not get in trouble. My teacher at the time was Mrs. Vite.…

Food For Thought Beginning in the early two thousands, the term “food deserts” came into usage as a way of describing “neighborhoods… with inadequate physical or economic access to healthy food” (Leete, L., Bania, N. & Sparks-Ibanga, 2012, p. 204). It is now popularly understood that food deserts exist in urban areas all across the developed world. Meaning, it is very difficult or impossible for individuals to obtain fresh produce. The majority of these areas do not have grocery stores and are…

Then there’s the whole other race factor: Is concern over “income levels” and “demographic change” just gloss for an underlying assumption—that neighborhoods go south when white people move out and black people move in. If that isn’t enough to roil the revitalization waters, this emerging shift in neighborhood policy rings all kinds of alarm bells about gentrification and social engineering. Baltimore has avoided such prickly issues for the last decade with a community development approach…

It was the reasonable neighborhood to push out because it was a poor neighborhood made up of people of color, who didn’t know how to defend themselves. It’s difficult to bring yourself to challenge those forces, when the forces money, power, and status because the imbalance of power is too great to defend the little that one may have. When you own a home, such as those who live in The Hill, you find the willpower to try to fight for the few things you can call your own. Neighborhoods like The…

While this homesteading program has ended, the desire to own a piece of land where one could be independent and self-sufficient has not. Today people are digging up their front yards and planting gardens, unplugging from the grid, and striving for a lifestyle and an ideology that is totally different than the one they know. They are the modern homesteader. The term modern homesteader or just simply homesteader is the most common used by researchers to define a group of people “leading a…

INTRODUCTION: For years people of color have been disproportionately affected by environmental hazards. There are many reasons why people of color are more susceptible to environmental hazards. In simplest terms, the main reason for this injustice is environmental racism. Environmental racism can be described as environmental health discrimination based on race, mostly low income communities of color (Shelton & Miller, 2016). Environmental discrimination can take the form of placing…

deal with politics at every level from local all the way up to federal authorities. Their business depends on cell towers to carry wireless signals. However, no one wants a cell tower in their backyard. So Verizon must navigate the permitting and zoning process at the local level to construct and maintain their cell towers. Verizon has obviously been very successful at this level of political forces because they have the largest network in the United States. Beyond the local level of…

experiences. In addition to the fact that 73% of Parkland Magnet High’s students are classified as “economically disadvantaged, 43% of students are African-Americans, and 39% identify as non-white Hispanics. Severe underfunding and the public-school zoning system both discourage diversity within Parkland Magnet High. Students from affluent backgrounds choose to go to more prestigious high schools while poor students who rely on the busing system are confined to attending schools close to their…

mentioned above, every plan involves many different organizations and individuals. It’s impossible for a plan to be reliable to all of them, so we need to take a balance between various groups. The downtown vision plan is not a comprehensive plan or zoning plan in this case, the main purpose of the plan is to present the imagined visions of downtown Chapel Hill to the residents, and get feedback from them. So I think a simplified style is appropriate, but the town hall might need to accomplish…