1. Answer the following questions:
a. What is the zoning where your home is?b. Does zoning allow factories, or buildings above a certain height, in your community or neighborhood? What kinds of businesses are allowed?c. Are you allowed to have horses or chickens in your yard? What about pigs? What would be the purpose of not allowing farm animals in residential neighborhoods?d. If you wanted to build a new house, or add an addition to the house you own, where would you go to get permission? What codes would you have to follow?e. What are some special zoning problems or concerns in your community? Describe them.f. What are some advantages and disadvantages of zoning laws?
2. Is skateboarding a controversial issue in your town? How is it being dealt with? Briefly discuss at least two points of view. If skateboarding is not a local issue, what other issue, meaningful to teenagers, is of concern? Choose an issue and briefly discuss how it is being dealt with.
