WJ will be the one to benefit the most and the area surrounding it. Let's be real. They need another school there given how MoCo keeps growing Bethesda and Rockville but that isn't going to really help the DCC as promised. And, if it does the commute would be horrible for some. |
There are even larger parts of the county with greater population even that lack a high-school. |
I know! All the money should go to Bethesda because they pay the most taxes. |
Nobody said that. Which money would MCPS buy the former Adventist hospital site in Takoma Park with? |
That was among the options considered. I think it's becoming a multi-use development, instead. |
Whether that or some other site, it would be the same funds used for other capital improvements. Immaterial are the facts that MoCo doesn't pony up enough to cover the need and that the metric for meeting the need is not how much money is spent for an area but how well the system provides public facilities for an area relative to the other areas served. Some places cost more than others to provide similar service levels. |
Well, no, it wouldn't. Because MCPS doesn't need to buy property it already owns. |
Well, sure. Then a zero cost (other than the admin work involved in the transfer) would come from the same capital improvements budget. MCPS didn't own the hospital site, though. Or the Discovery site. And each had drawbacks. There were others they might have considered, or considered differently, but thinking about those may have been limited if the purpose of the study was simply to show how difficult it would be so that focus could shift to Woodward. |
Such as? |
Jessup Blair Park was one. |
The City of Takoma Park is dumping money into up-zoning for the Washington Adventist Hospital site. They are planning a luxury high-rise, with more to follow down Maple Ave, per the dreams of the city council. The city just received approval from the county council for a minor master plan to make this happen. Who knows where the additional children will go to school. We have no space left in the nearby elementary schools. |
Because it said “Interested parties from all clusters should be coming together to advocate for this funding to be restored.” The reality is that no one in another cluster or another school for that matter is an interested party in getting the auditorium. Particular if it means that other equally or more needed projects continue to get delayed |
True that. |
I can't support this. There's too much CO bloat and waste. They need to cut expenses elsewhere before I can get behind any of this. |
Won't this make the non-existant schools even more overcrowded? |