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. |
Any of the clusters included in the Woodward study might have an interest. |
What happened at the hearing today? |
The Woodward Study should be renamed. This is really a realignment of several middle school and high school boundaries - it's just not about Woodward. The DCC needs to be part of the name of the study. That current name is intentional, so DCC families don't realize they need to pay attention to it. This has been going on for five years now. |
You haven't seen them use park land before??? |
It would make the non-existent school even more needed than it had been when they eschewed it for Woodward. |
You should look at the thoughts they mocked up for use of the Discovery site. Just an office building. No campus. Even with traditional facilities (ball fields, etc.), you can fit a HS on less if you spend the $ to build up. Happens in some city environments. Historical structures can be moved. The park goes nearly unused, especially by MoCo residents -- it's closer to many in DC. |
Those mock-ups were for the purpose of finding a site to be a holding school for Northwood to move to temporarily, not to be a full-fledged high school of its own. |
It’s doubtful that it will really impact DCC. So, why would they care. It may pull from Rockville but that’s it. |
With the DCC school choice kids who don’t do sports don’t need the fields and they could do something special like a music or theater or other speciality programs. Kids could do sports at other schools. |
The topic at hand was advocating for the tens of thousands of students who over the years will attend Woodward, currently with no schedule to ever have an auditorium built, which every other HS in MCPS has. Leave it to DCUM to go off the rails about where other MCPS schools *should* be, when there are no plans for any of them |