Topic 16 It has recently been announced that a new restaurant may bebuilt in your neighborhood

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<i><b>Stating a Preference 16</b></i>

<i><b>It has recently been announced that a new restaurant may be built in your </b></i>
<i><b>neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and </b></i>
<i><b>details to support your answer.</b></i>

<i>I can see both advantages and disadvantages to having a new restaurant built in </i>
<i>our neighborhood. I believe, however, that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. </i>
<i>A new restaurant would bring more traffic problems to the area. In addition, it could </i>
<i>attract undesirable people. Most of all, I think there are other types of business that </i>
<i>would be more beneficial to the neighborhood.</i>

<i>Traffic congestion is already a problem in our neighborhood. Our streets are too </i>
<i>narrow for the traffic we have now. A new restaurant would just bring more traffic. In </i>
<i>addition, it is difficult to find parking on our streets, especially on weekend evenings. </i>
<i>Unless it has its own parking lot, a new restaurant would make it even harder for </i>
<i>residents to find places to park their cars.</i>

<i>I’m also concerned about the type of patrons the new restaurant would bring into </i>
<i>our neighborhood. If the restaurant serves drinks and has dancing, there could be </i>
<i>problems. The restaurant would stay open late and people leaving the restaurant might </i>
<i>be drunk. They could be noisy too. This is not the kind of thing I want to see in my </i>
<i>neighborhood.</i>

<i>Finally, there are other types of businesses that we need in our neighborhood </i>
<i>more. We already have a restaurant and a couple of coffee shops. But we don’t have a </i>
<i>bookstore or a pharmacy, and we have only one small grocery store. I would prefer to </i>
<i>see one of these businesses established here rather than another restaurant. Any one of </i>
<i>them would be more useful to the residents and would maintain the quiet atmosphere of </i>
<i>our streets.</i>

<i>A new restaurant disrupt the quiet lifestyle of our neighborhood. It might bring </i>
<i>jobs, but it also bring traffic and noise, and it would use space that might be better used </i>
<i>for another type of business. This is why I would oppose a plan for a new restaurant.</i>

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