Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:About the community centers- do we really need so many? Like literally, are they all used to capacity daily?
Yeah it definitely seems like there are a lot of rec centers. Barcroft seems like it would make a good high school location. But only a small share of people in Arlington have schools and property values aren't that tied to schools, so I don't think the politics work.
The problem with using rec centers is that the sites are held by the county, not APS, and the county historically has strictly refused to transfer its property to APS without getting a different property in exchange (but since APS is using all of the sites it currently holds, there is nothing it could give in a trade without creating different capacity problems). Many of the current community centers used to be schools, but APS transferred the properties to the county when enrollment was too low to sustain them because the cost of maintaining the buildings was too much for APS to bear. Now that APS needs the land again, the county will not transfer them back.
Also, building code requirements are different for schools than for community centers, and most (if not all) of the current community centers would not meet the building code requirements for schools (particularly elementary schools), so the cost to convert them into schools would be massive.
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