The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
Observing the current dilemma being faced by the council of Maple County with regards to the proposed measure to curtail the overdeveloping state of the county by limiting new housing supply and the possible challenge with housing cost later in the future, it is important to answer some significant questions pertinent to resolving this impasse, addressing the various submissions from the proponent and opponent, and finally reaching a conclusion to resolve the stalemate.
First of all, the proponents of supplying limited housing are comparing the Chestnut county result of implementing the same measures. Considering the success in Chestnut, it could be assumed that Maple County will witness the same. However, it is important to consider the state of the economy, initial cost of living, agricultural and industrial sector of the county. For example, it was stated that there was a modest increase in the cost of housing, this could be as a result of low population growth which reflects the status of the economy, consequently, low demand for new housing. Also, Chestnut county might have implemented such measures secondary to other reasons beyond overdevelopment such as industrial sector expansion.
Secondly, the opponents of the motion cited the efect on Pine County as there was an increase in the cost of housing as an aftermath of enacting the motion. Where the opponents might have been wrong about this conclusion could be accounted for by reasons for such implementation which could range from industrial growth requiring development of more infrastructures and consequently increase in the standard of living. If the standard of living, indirectly cost of living, has been high from the onset, such outcome is expected and should not be remarkable.
In lieu of this, the prediction and growth analysis, without making reference to any other county's success or failure, should be duly considered in an unbiased manner. If the current prediction suggests an increase in the cost of housing within Maple County, it is a necessity to ask and provide answers to questions with respect to the peculiarities of the county with focus on the growth rate, industrial reforms, economy policies and agricultural implications.
In summary, there is the need to eliminate prejudice while making the final conclusion on the limited supply of housing deliberation by the council by providing answers to the questions an average citizen would ask with respect to the predicted outcome without any form of political bias.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 401 350
No. of Characters: 2084 1500
No. of Different Words: 185 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.475 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.197 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.877 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.703 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.395 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.663 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 146, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an unbiased manner" with adverb for "unbiased"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...s or failure, should be duly considered in an unbiased manner. If the current prediction suggests an ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, while, for example, in summary, such as, as a result, first of all, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2135.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 401.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32418952618 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93809403605 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483790523691 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 662.4 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 101.655463864 57.8364921388 176% => OK
Chars per sentence: 177.916666667 119.503703932 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.4166666667 23.324526521 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.8333333333 5.70786347227 225% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202129126354 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0799370905486 0.0743258471296 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0629534595953 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113967241217 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476296345029 0.0628817314937 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.3 14.3799401198 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.52 48.3550499002 61% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.3 12.197005988 142% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.17 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.12 8.32208582834 122% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 98.500998004 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.9071856287 151% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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