Band 6+: You have learned from a news article that a real estate company is going to build a shopping center near your home. However, you think that the shopping center should not be built there. Write a letter to the city counselor. In your letter, • say how you have learned about the plan • explain how it is going to negatively affect the residential area where you live • say what you think the city council should do about it

Dear Sir,

I am living at Bristow in Barrie. I recently read an article that you are going to build a shopping mall in our area. I want to request from you that this is not good for the population living there.

Our residential area is very small and has compacted streets. As we all know that if there will be a mall, a lot of people will come. Whether our area is already well-populated and there is hardly any space to park our vehicles. Although we know that mall would have its own parking space, sometimes if it becomes less and people start parking in our streets, it will make our area more constrained.

Secondly, in our neighbourhood, there is a college. If a mall will be opened, then the students might go to the shopping mall and bunk their classes for their fun.

By thinking about all these negative effects, I request you not to build a shopping mall in the residential area. It should be somewhere at the commercial place.

Yours faithfully,

Jashanpreet kaur