Preparing the Next Generation

One of our loyal readers asks you to take a look at the following website:

http://www.urbanplan.org/UP_Home/UP_Home_fst.html

Urban Plan is a program where "high school students learn the roles, issues, trade-offs, and economics involved in urban development. It provides our future voters, neighbors, community leaders, public officials, and land use professionals with a hands-on experience in developing realistic land use solutions to vexing urban growth challenges."

The Urban Plan website points out that the population of the United States will grow by 60 million people in the next 20 years. Land use questions will become increasingly more complex and more difficult to make and the next generation needs to be equipped to make those decisions.