Who Do You Ask What?

For the scenario below, can someone please identify the components in the problem.
Determine the questions that you would ask each component in the scenario in order to gather enough information to start working on a solution to the problem. (Note: You don’t have to offer potential solutions to the problem; at this point, I just need information gathered.)
Explain from where and how you would get more information if you needed it.



"You have been appointed to the County Planning Commission. One of the growing small towns in the county needs a highway bypass to decrease traffic through its business district, but the only logical and most direct proposed bypass route takes it through one of the more affluent residential areas. The threat of increased traffic, congestion, and pollution has the residents of the neighborhood in an uproar, and the County Treasurer is also complaining that the proposed route might lead to a decrease in revenue for the county, since it would cause a decrease in property values in this affluent neighborhood."

Rerouting traffic will not only decrease property values in the affluent neighborhood, it will decrease sales in the business district. The only people that will benefit will be thru traffic; people that don't live and don't vote there. Consider wider or one-way streets in the business district. Making them one-way will effectively decrease the traffic by half. Ask the people in the business district how much of their sales are from thru traffic.