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? |
Owned by M-NCPPC, therefore not legally possible. What other sites? |
Interesting site, with a historical house in the middle of it. That park is 15 acres. In contrast, BCC HS is 16 acres and a really tight fit. |
Is it really UPzoning to turn a former hospital site into housing? "Luxury" apartments just means "new" apartments. |
First, someone has to spend a few million to tear down the hospital. The city plans to have a very expensive high rise go up; they want tax dollars. Of course, if you are willing to pay $750K to $1 million for a condo, you might not want to look out your window at the 1974 medical building that the Adventist community is holding on to. In addition to the hospital site, the city's minor-master plan includes the whole of Washington Adventist University, which is financially unstable. Given the spectacular fail of the city's multi-million dollar effort to turn a parking lot into an office building at Takoma Junction, with the end result being a parking lot, what could go wrong with the latest plan by the city to sweep in on the Adventist properties? |
So don't bid on the development. And the PP who is worried about school capacity can stop worrying. Good news all around. |