You have heard that a developer plans to build a shopping centre near your home. Write a letter to the council. In your letter: • Say how you heard about the plan • Explain how you feel about it • Ask for more information about it

Dear Sir or Madam, I am a resident of Los Andes and I am writing
this
letter to express my concern about the ongoing project of building a shopping
center
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in my
neighborhood
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. The
last
Sunday I had a meeting with some engineers that are friends of mine and I was told that a huge shopping
center
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is going to be built within the
next
year three streets away from my house.
Initially
, when I got the news I could not believe that
such
a
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astonishing project is going to take place in our city. Since I have been an active member of our community during the
last
five years, I would like to be posted about all the infrastructure modifications that are going to be done in order to satisfy the shopping
center
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requirements. For
this
reason, I would appreciate it if you frequently send me information about all the construction stages in order to help
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part of the social job needed with our community. I look forward to receiving your response. Kind regards, Darwin Diaz
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