New River Campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drive on MacArthur now during pick up drop off and see the cars back up. They sit in a lane of traffic with their blinkers on. Starts about 240 pm. Only one lane gets by.

"Only" one lane? That's all that's needed on MacArthur anyway, especially in the middle of the day.

[Anonymous]

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Class plays. Musical performances. Parent volunteers. Parent-teacher conferences. Lots of things happen during the schoolday that will bring even more cars into the area/on campus and looking for places to park.

And these happen every day? No. PTCs are occasional, and easily staggered. Class plays are one class - they don't have every child in a play at the same time - it's, what, 30 kids max?

Having some parents visit campus during the day, and parking on Nebraska (where much of the parking is unused) is not 300 parents all at once. And 300 parents all at once happens for two brief periods - in the morning and the afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Gonna be funny when the neighbors shut down the school idea so the property is sold to a developer who puts up 18 SFH on the site instead.

[Anonymous]

Sooo... I'm just going to say this in my out loud voice. As a neighbor I'd much rather have another school (with the twice a day traffic) than a hovering apartment building that the Greater Greater Washington crowd would love to see on that land...

[Anonymous]

A count of the River family directory shows 149 families (a previous year, but I don't think this year would be much different). Not 300. Many families have two or even three children in the school.

And by the way, there are no sports games. River only goes to 3rd grade. About the only big event is the annual Back to School night. (The auction is a big night, ostensibly, but fewer parents show up for it than Back to School orientation.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A count of the River family directory shows 149 families (a previous year, but I don't think this year would be much different). Not 300. Many families have two or even three children in the school.

And by the way, there are no sports games. River only goes to 3rd grade. About the only big event is the annual Back to School night. (The auction is a big night, ostensibly, but fewer parents show up for it than Back to School orientation.)

They are hoping to expand to 6th grade and 350 students as part of this proposed plan. Catch up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To the neighbors calling other neighbors names, does it not concern you that the River School has no plan for how they are going to properly manage their families, staff and visitors coming onto to their proposed campus every day? What about after school events? Sports? Special Events? Fundraisers? They have a preliminary traffic plan. So build your monster school and then worry about the cars, congestion and traffic problems afterwards? In what world does that make sense.

Sports? How many sporting events will they be having for the age that the are targeting? It is no different from NPS.
I assume that families will park on Nebraska or around the green space that is used for rugby / soccer.


If the entrance to the campus is on Nebraska - and the school tells parents to be nice neighbors and only use that entrance, I would think there will be very limited additional traffic flowing down 42nd.

Now - I am all for slowing down traffic on 42nd. The GDS cut through including school buses who do not slow for others in the circle should stop - regardless of the River Campus.

Where are the children going to play sports? Especially if River School wants to expand by adding grades 4, 5 and 6 where is the athletic field/turf space going to be? Playground equipment? Blacktop for outdoor games or school events? Where are the parents going to park for fundraisers, school nights or events, festivities?

People are saying the streets don't belong to other neighbors (so absurd) but that green space in front of the estate (that the school is making it look like belongs to them in their renderings) is not for their personal use and does not belong to them. They do not have all this green space they claim or dream to have. It is not the same as Field School like some other poster mentioned.

The parking along Nebraska in the evening is mostly unused. And at that time there are no limits to RPPs, etc., anyway - so really don't see how events are an issue.

As for sports, what does that have to do with traffic? If River School wants to offer sports it better figure out a plan. Or it can be a school that doesn't offer much in the way of sports. Look at NPS - it has one small field that's adequate for little kids to run around on, but you can't possibly play a real game of soccer for anyone over 1st or 2d grade. They go elsewhere for sports for the older kids. Regardless - the lack of sports facilities is a marketing issue, not a neighbor parking issue.

You are right the spots along Nebraska tend to not be all used, but there are not nearly enough to hold all the River Schools parents. When those are used up, which are also surrounding houses and neighbors, where will the rest of the cars go? It is scary how mindless River School and their parents are about the well being of those that live in the Tenley community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gonna be funny when the neighbors shut down the school idea so the property is sold to a developer who puts up 18 SFH on the site instead.

At least it will be residential and they won't have private entities or private school pushing their way in flipping residential lots into commercial use without a real plan in place before they build.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sooo... I'm just going to say this in my out loud voice. As a neighbor I'd much rather have another school (with the twice a day traffic) than a hovering apartment building that the Greater Greater Washington crowd would love to see on that land...

At least this would be true development! Be quiet and join in respectively.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sooo... I'm just going to say this in my out loud voice. As a neighbor I'd much rather have another school (with the twice a day traffic) than a hovering apartment building that the Greater Greater Washington crowd would love to see on that land...

At least this would be true development! Be quiet and join in respectively.

And it would hopefully help with the affordable housing shortage! They would have a parking garage too to accommodate their residents. Not build it and then, oh wait....let's dump this on the surrounding neighbors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Class plays. Musical performances. Parent volunteers. Parent-teacher conferences. Lots of things happen during the schoolday that will bring even more cars into the area/on campus and looking for places to park.

And these happen every day? No. PTCs are occasional, and easily staggered. Class plays are one class - they don't have every child in a play at the same time - it's, what, 30 kids max?

Having some parents visit campus during the day, and parking on Nebraska (where much of the parking is unused) is not 300 parents all at once. And 300 parents all at once happens for two brief periods - in the morning and the afternoon.

You clearly do not live in the neighborhood and see Nebraska during the day. There isn't a space to be had because they are taken by MD and VA cars already.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Drive on MacArthur now during pick up drop off and see the cars back up. They sit in a lane of traffic with their blinkers on. Starts about 240 pm. Only one lane gets by.

"Only" one lane? That's all that's needed on MacArthur anyway, especially in the middle of the day.

Talking about drop-off and pick-up - peek congestion times. River School will be adding to its clinic by tripling it in size and quadrupling its day care thus compounding the amount of traffic. Those "middle of the day" pickups are going to be worse. No one needs to sit on one lane traffic because the school doesn't want to plan accordingly. It is not safe for the community.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sooo... I'm just going to say this in my out loud voice. As a neighbor I'd much rather have another school (with the twice a day traffic) than a hovering apartment building that the Greater Greater Washington crowd would love to see on that land...

At least this would be true development! Be quiet and join in respectively.

And it would hopefully help with the affordable housing shortage! They would have a parking garage too to accommodate their residents. Not build it and then, oh wait....let's dump this on the surrounding neighbors.

Actually, due to green politics, quite a few of the recent apartment buildings in Tenleytown have been built without[i], or with insignificant, parking. Same as the library. "Use metro", they command.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sooo... I'm just going to say this in my out loud voice. As a neighbor I'd much rather have another school (with the twice a day traffic) than a hovering apartment building that the Greater Greater Washington crowd would love to see on that land...

At least this would be true development! Be quiet and join in respectively.

And it would hopefully help with the affordable housing shortage! They would have a parking garage too to accommodate their residents. Not build it and then, oh wait....let's dump this on the surrounding neighbors.

Actually, due to green politics, quite a few of the recent apartment buildings in Tenleytown have been built without[i], or with insignificant, parking. Same as the library. "Use metro", they command.

They would still be DC residents. People don't live at the library and hundreds of people are not flocking to it at one time multiple times of the day.

[Anonymous]

Who cares about traffic. It is bad, there are a lot of people who drive. So what?

How about, let's encourage our schools to be close to metro so people can take the bus or subway to it. It is a much better solution that Palisades which has very limited mass transit.

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