Yes For Sherwood Case Study

Sherwood is widely known for its schools and community, as well as its beautiful parks and preserved green spaces. Since it’s such a small town, when people want to move hereabouts new houses have to be built frequently. However, Sherwood is running out of room. For the past while, a program called “Yes for Sherwood” has been petitioning the City Council to allow them to abolish 101 acres of preserved natural area and build houses. Sherwood residents are high in debate about whether or not this program should go through. “Yes for Sherwood” has launched a $1.4 million campaign to set up signs, hand out flyers, and have employees travel around the neighborhood, attempting to convince people to vote affirmatively on 34-242, which is their campaign. They say that they will reserve 24 acres of land for trails and other preserved areas. “We aren’t hurting Sherwood, we’re helping it,” they express. “We support schools in the area, because the new houses will increase property taxes that will fund the schools. Overcrowding won’t be a problem because it will take years for the houses to be built and people to buy them, and by that time the amount of children in schools in Sherwood is expected to drop.”

Many people believe that preserving their beautiful natural areas has to be important, and destroying them would be an atrocious process. After all, those spaces are part of the reason so many people want to move there. Questions are frequently asked by those who don’t support the idea. How does cutting down hundreds of acres end up preserving natural areas? How is adding children to our already overcrowded schools supporting them at all? “Yes for Sherwood” can come up with many answers to all of these questions, but not all of them, people claim, seem entirely