RM Cluster Overcrowding?

[Anonymous]

15:55 makes me sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving Ritchie Park to Gaithersburg HS???? Have you ever set foot in the RM cluster? Most of RP can walk to the school, or is just across Falls in Horizon Hill. Stop throwing out completely useless suggestions that are not grounded in any reality. Do you even know where Gaithersburg HS is? It's way up 270. Come on.

Gaithersburg HS is hardly "way up 270". It's quite near to the northern part of Ritchie Park ES zone. In fact, that area is closer to Gaithersburg HS than its neighboring area zoned for Rosemont ES.

[Anonymous]

What?? It is nowhere near the "northern part" of the Ritchie Park zone. It's about 25 minutes up 270, at least, on a weekend. Just stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving Ritchie Park to Gaithersburg HS???? Have you ever set foot in the RM cluster? Most of RP can walk to the school, or is just across Falls in Horizon Hill. Stop throwing out completely useless suggestions that are not grounded in any reality. Do you even know where Gaithersburg HS is? It's way up 270. Come on.

Gaithersburg HS is hardly "way up 270". It's quite near to the northern part of Ritchie Park ES zone. In fact, that area is closer to Gaithersburg HS than its neighboring area zoned for Rosemont ES.

I think you have the wrong school in mind...you are not describing Ritchie Park.

[Anonymous]

Here is an idea.

Forget about this boundary issue. City has no control over this and that may or may not happen.

City has full control over not allowing more apartments when school is already 120%. That's the current policy. There is no good reason to increase it.

Everyone should simply rally around and testify. If you are concern then testify. If council members vote for increasing the limit then simply vote against them in the next election.

Development at any cost shouldn't be allowed. Kids education is too high a price to pay for extra apartments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving Ritchie Park to Gaithersburg HS???? Have you ever set foot in the RM cluster? Most of RP can walk to the school, or is just across Falls in Horizon Hill. Stop throwing out completely useless suggestions that are not grounded in any reality. Do you even know where Gaithersburg HS is? It's way up 270. Come on.

Gaithersburg HS is hardly "way up 270". It's quite near to the northern part of Ritchie Park ES zone. In fact, that area is closer to Gaithersburg HS than its neighboring area zoned for Rosemont ES.

No, the northern part of College Gardens (King Farm) is relatively close to Gaithersburg HS, but still not as close as Rosemont. The northern part of RP (Fallsgrove neighborhood) is walking distance to Wootton, along with most of the RP zones, from the opposite direction.

[Anonymous]

We get it already. RM is overcrowded just like most of the high schools in the county. Congrats you one of many.

[Anonymous]

We get it already. RM is overcrowded like most of the high schools in the county. Congrats you're one of many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving Ritchie Park to Gaithersburg HS???? Have you ever set foot in the RM cluster? Most of RP can walk to the school, or is just across Falls in Horizon Hill. Stop throwing out completely useless suggestions that are not grounded in any reality. Do you even know where Gaithersburg HS is? It's way up 270. Come on.

Gaithersburg HS is hardly "way up 270". It's quite near to the northern part of Ritchie Park ES zone. In fact, that area is closer to Gaithersburg HS than its neighboring area zoned for Rosemont ES.

I think you have the wrong school in mind...you are not describing Ritchie Park.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/RitchieParkES.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is an idea.

Forget about this boundary issue. City has no control over this and that may or may not happen.

City has full control over not allowing more apartments when school is already 120%. That's the current policy. There is no good reason to increase it.

Everyone should simply rally around and testify. If you are concern then testify. If council members vote for increasing the limit then simply vote against them in the next election.

Development at any cost shouldn't be allowed. Kids education is too high a price to pay for extra apartments.

Sure there is. People need a place to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moving Ritchie Park to Gaithersburg HS???? Have you ever set foot in the RM cluster? Most of RP can walk to the school, or is just across Falls in Horizon Hill. Stop throwing out completely useless suggestions that are not grounded in any reality. Do you even know where Gaithersburg HS is? It's way up 270. Come on.

Gaithersburg HS is hardly "way up 270". It's quite near to the northern part of Ritchie Park ES zone. In fact, that area is closer to Gaithersburg HS than its neighboring area zoned for Rosemont ES.

I think you have the wrong school in mind...you are not describing Ritchie Park.

Gaithersburg HS is not even on this map. The northern part of RP boundary is closer to Wootton than anyone living in Travilah, DuFief, or Stone Mill lives to Wootton.
http://gis.mcpsmd.org/ServiceAreaMaps/RitchieParkES.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an idea.

Forget about this boundary issue. City has no control over this and that may or may not happen.

City has full control over not allowing more apartments when school is already 120%. That's the current policy. There is no good reason to increase it.

Everyone should simply rally around and testify. If you are concern then testify. If council members vote for increasing the limit then simply vote against them in the next election.

Development at any cost shouldn't be allowed. Kids education is too high a price to pay for extra apartments.

Sure there is. People need a place to live.

Not without supporting infrastructure. If we simply build it by ignoring everything else, then quality of life will drop drastically in RM cluster. Citizen in city need to decide what kind of city they want.

They want balanced growth which keeps quality of life intact.

or

They want single minded focus on building apartments in RM cluster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We get it already. RM is overcrowded like most of the high schools in the county. Congrats you're one of many.

Nah, you didn't get this discussion. RM is already overcrowded. Everyone knows that.

Discussion is about City trying to make the situation even worse by lifting moratorium for new buildings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get it already. RM is overcrowded like most of the high schools in the county. Congrats you're one of many.

Nah, you didn't get this discussion. RM is already overcrowded. Everyone knows that.

Discussion is about City trying to make the situation even worse by lifting moratorium for new buildings.

That seems like a terrible idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is an idea.

Forget about this boundary issue. City has no control over this and that may or may not happen.

City has full control over not allowing more apartments when school is already 120%. That's the current policy. There is no good reason to increase it.

Everyone should simply rally around and testify. If you are concern then testify. If council members vote for increasing the limit then simply vote against them in the next election.

Development at any cost shouldn't be allowed. Kids education is too high a price to pay for extra apartments.

Sure there is. People need a place to live.

There are PLENTY of places to live. Families may choose one of the hundreds of already empty apartments available at Twinbrook at RTC. Or, chose one of the many condos for sale in the cluster.