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AOD Principle(s) Applied: Political Imagination, Public Dialogue

This past week, for Political Science class, Maggie took us all down to the Federal Way City Hall to meet with the Regional Council. We met two council members, the city manager, and the man in charge of economic development in Federal Way.

The things we learned were not watered down concepts prepared in advance for our class. What we learned were real issues in Federal Way and real plans to help fix them and develop the city. The man in charge of economic development told us how they wanted to build a new complex that had four towers and a park in the middle. In addition, they wanted the stores to come all the way up to the streets and have larger parking structures built to facilitate vehicles.

Not only did we learn about the plans, we had opportunities to speak. I asked him questions and visioned the new city plans myself. He took into consideration the things I had to say. I feel like I made an actual impact on the plans for the future federal way.