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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are not going to have an excess of 500-600 seats.  I don't know where you got that number, but that ain't happening in 2021 when Reed opens.

Do you know they are building 27 townhouses on Lee Highway?  Nine single family homes at Sycamore across the street from the metro?  My street alone  has four new houses going in where there were three homes (and no school aged children).

Also, APS is assuming in all of this that all schools has the same number of transfers.  Tuckahoe and Nottingham COMBINED had fewer than Jamestown.

Of course we want to talk and come up with a solution.  We are likely losing a school.  But, we can't roll over and let APS use their same awful projections and data to overcrowd us the day Reed opens.

Everyone needs to be willing to listen to these types of things.  Those of you who don't care or are doing math on the back of an envelope need to listen to those of us who have been screwed over and over by APS.

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OP here, I agree we need to be talking about this. As to the 500-600 figure, 600 is APS’s estimate, 500 seemed more reasonable to me because of things like the townhouses. But even if the real number is 350 we’re still getting a program, so maybe a good starting point for the discussion is to say we should only be considering sites with smaller capacities. If we set the cap at 600 (because we can’t reasonably expect to convince APS to back off their numbers, we’re going to have to work with them) that would narrow the pool of candidate sites we should consider to Barrett, Jamestown, Nottingham and Tuckahoe (my school is on that list, so this isn’t self-serving). Thoughts?[/quote]

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