8/27 APS Work Session—Elementary Boundaries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Reed site has no bus lane, up to now it’s accommodated a few buses in the street parking lane. In order to accommodate 13 buses worth of option students, they’d have to raze the athletic fields, which are heavily used for baseball and soccer. Is it better for kids across the county to have field space be even more limited than it is now?

Too bad, so sad.

I don’t see why they need to raze the fields. ASFD is mostly bused and it’s bus lane holds 3 buses and it’s fine.

ASFS? They use both lanes of the circle for buses and seem to get 7-8 buses in there at once. They also have a block of no-parking street space for waiting buses to queue. And it’s still a CF.

[Anonymous]

As a South Arlington resident who just went through this s*&*& show, I’m sitting back with my popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Reed site has no bus lane, up to now it’s accommodated a few buses in the street parking lane. In order to accommodate 13 buses worth of option students, they’d have to raze the athletic fields, which are heavily used for baseball and soccer. Is it better for kids across the county to have field space be even more limited than it is now?

Too bad, so sad.

You really raise the level of discourse in this thread, don’t you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Reed site has no bus lane, up to now it’s accommodated a few buses in the street parking lane. In order to accommodate 13 buses worth of option students, they’d have to raze the athletic fields, which are heavily used for baseball and soccer. Is it better for kids across the county to have field space be even more limited than it is now?

Too bad, so sad.

I don’t see why they need to raze the fields. ASFD is mostly bused and it’s bus lane holds 3 buses and it’s fine.

ASFS? They use both lanes of the circle for buses and seem to get 7-8 buses in there at once. They also have a block of no-parking street space for waiting buses to queue. And it’s still a CF.

Yeah and there is a huge parking lot next Reed which would hold 8 buses and they can have no street parking along the fields during school drop off pickup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Reed site has no bus lane, up to now it’s accommodated a few buses in the street parking lane. In order to accommodate 13 buses worth of option students, they’d have to raze the athletic fields, which are heavily used for baseball and soccer. Is it better for kids across the county to have field space be even more limited than it is now?

Too bad, so sad.

I don’t see why they need to raze the fields. ASFD is mostly bused and it’s bus lane holds 3 buses and it’s fine.

ASFS? They use both lanes of the circle for buses and seem to get 7-8 buses in there at once. They also have a block of no-parking street space for waiting buses to queue. And it’s still a CF.

Yeah and there is a huge parking lot next Reed which would hold 8 buses and they can have no street parking along the fields during school drop off pickup.

The Reed school design includes a bus lane that can accommodate up to 7 buses. They could make the shoulder leading up to it no parking to accommodate waiting buses, but 18th is very narrow (and could only fit a couple of buses anyway) so any bus that isn’t right on the curb will impede traffic in the travel lane, but any bus that is right on the curb will struggle to make the right turn into the lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Reed site has no bus lane, up to now it’s accommodated a few buses in the street parking lane. In order to accommodate 13 buses worth of option students, they’d have to raze the athletic fields, which are heavily used for baseball and soccer. Is it better for kids across the county to have field space be even more limited than it is now?

Too bad, so sad.

You really raise the level of discourse in this thread, don’t you?

The greater good of a school versus a speculative concern about a couple fields? Yeah, I’ll side with the greater good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a South Arlington resident who just went through this s*&*& show, I’m sitting back with my popcorn.

Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Reed site has no bus lane, up to now it’s accommodated a few buses in the street parking lane. In order to accommodate 13 buses worth of option students, they’d have to raze the athletic fields, which are heavily used for baseball and soccer. Is it better for kids across the county to have field space be even more limited than it is now?

Too bad, so sad.

I don’t see why they need to raze the fields. ASFD is mostly bused and it’s bus lane holds 3 buses and it’s fine.

ASFS? They use both lanes of the circle for buses and seem to get 7-8 buses in there at once. They also have a block of no-parking street space for waiting buses to queue. And it’s still a CF.

Yeah and there is a huge parking lot next Reed which would hold 8 buses and they can have no street parking along the fields during school drop off pickup.

The Reed school design includes a bus lane that can accommodate up to 7 buses. They could make the shoulder leading up to it no parking to accommodate waiting buses, but 18th is very narrow (and could only fit a couple of buses anyway) so any bus that isn’t right on the curb will impede traffic in the travel lane, but any bus that is right on the curb will struggle to make the right turn into the lot.

So what. 18th isn’t an arterial route. There a myriad of other routes for drivers who happen to drive during bus times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Reed site has no bus lane, up to now it’s accommodated a few buses in the street parking lane. In order to accommodate 13 buses worth of option students, they’d have to raze the athletic fields, which are heavily used for baseball and soccer. Is it better for kids across the county to have field space be even more limited than it is now?

Too bad, so sad.

I don’t see why they need to raze the fields. ASFD is mostly bused and it’s bus lane holds 3 buses and it’s fine.

ASFS? They use both lanes of the circle for buses and seem to get 7-8 buses in there at once. They also have a block of no-parking street space for waiting buses to queue. And it’s still a CF.

Yeah and there is a huge parking lot next Reed which would hold 8 buses and they can have no street parking along the fields during school drop off pickup.

The Reed school design includes a bus lane that can accommodate up to 7 buses. They could make the shoulder leading up to it no parking to accommodate waiting buses, but 18th is very narrow (and could only fit a couple of buses anyway) so any bus that isn’t right on the curb will impede traffic in the travel lane, but any bus that is right on the curb will struggle to make the right turn into the lot.

So what. 18th isn’t an arterial route. There a myriad of other routes for drivers who happen to drive during bus times.

For a neighborhood road it actually gets pretty heavy traffic because of its proximity to Washington Blvd. And the county takes serious issue when APS blocks roadways on a regular basis due to poor transit planning. Only the county can designate those lanes no-parking, so APS would effectively
have to get the county’s sign off on the transportation plan. County won’t sign off if they don’t think the plan is adequate to keep roadways clear.

[Anonymous]

New buildings should not go to option schools. Westover was selfish and short-sighted when it fought a school at Reed. But those people shouldn’t drive what to do with Reed now. And if any option school is in that area, it’ll have to be ATS or IB to fill. So if right now the only decision on the table is where to move immersion, these schools aren’t viable locations.

[Anonymous]

The original Reed was was a red herring. They presented a school on a separate piece of the property bc they(APS) knew it would be rejected. APS was never serious. Discovery was a done deal.

Moving on, the reason APS has so many problems with transportation and uneven capacity issues is bc they haven’t done a comprehensive boundary redraw in a long time. When you evaluate density of students and locations of schools, it will become obvious where an option school should go, if they add or move one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a South Arlington resident who just went through this s*&*& show, I’m sitting back with my popcorn.

Enjoy.

Don’t get too comfy though. The next elem boundary process is county-wide so SA is back on the table..

[Anonymous]

Reed will be a neighborhood school. This is from this week's presentation:

PROJECT PARAMETERS
Create a new neighborhood elementary school
with an attendance zone

I get that many of you don't like it but it's time to move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reed will be a neighborhood school. This is from this week's presentation:

PROJECT PARAMETERS
Create a new neighborhood elementary school
with an attendance zone

I get that many of you don't like it but it's time to move on.

And from the APS Reed website:
On Nov. 17, 2018, the County Board approved a use permit amendment to renovate and expand the existing Reed School/Westover Library to create a neighborhood elementary school.

[Anonymous]

I think it’d be super to have Immersion in the NW. Key & Claremont are too far away!