Question

Fremont has struggled over recent years to keep downtown businesses thriving. Locals report that the inability to park anywhere other than at overpriced parking meters prevents them from shopping downtown. Last week, the city of Clarion reported that adding two new parking lots and decreasing the hourly parking rate in their downtown area increased the surrounding business revenue by 7% in the past year. Fremont and Clarion are similar in terms of population and sales tax rates. The Fremont city manager’s office is looking for ways to increase downtown revenue and asks the public for suggestions.

Q1) Which of the following is a likely suggestion the city manager’s office will receive from the public?

1. Fremont should reorganize downtown traffic into one-way streets
2. Fremont should increase available parking spaces downtown
3. Fremont should give tax breaks to downtown business owners
4. Fremont should add parking meters to increase revenue.

2) Which of the following is the purpose of editorial about downtown Fremont?

A.To encourance residents to shop in downtown Fremont

B.To engage residents in the discussion about increasing business revenue

C.To prevent residents from shopping in Clarion

D.To determine how residents feel about adding more parking downtown

Answer 1

1.Adding two parking lots and decreasing the hourly parking rate has incrased the revenue of City of Clarion by 7%. Hence, Fremont shoud increase available parking spaces down town. Option B is the answer

Reorganising down traffic into one-way streets do not solve the problem for parking spaces and do not raise the revenue, Hence option A is incorrect

By giving tax breaks to downtown business owners in turn will reduces the revenue of Fremnt, Option C is incorrect

Adding parking meters is not sufficent instead more parking spaces has to be created, Hence Option D is incorrect answer

2. The fremond's city manager's office is lookin for ways to increase downtown revenue and asks the public for suggestions. Hence , Option B is the answer, engaging residents in the discussion about increasing business revenue

The editorial is mainly about finding the reasons about the failure of the downtown  business and seeking suggestions from residents to overcome that, hence Options A,C and  D are incorrect