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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Excellent idea, PP, a NIMBY for NIMBY trade - that way, our kids can fight even more traffic to get to the overcrowded middle school on the other side of the county. I'm sorry, I really don't understand this mentality - I'm no less selfish than the average person but I don't understand why more schools and more transportation are seen as a threat, rather than an improvement to our quality of life. The PL will go through my neighborhood and I'm thrilled since current traffic conditions are unbearable and are only getting worse. So it boggles my mind that others resent the use of land bought by the state as a transportation route for, wow, transportation. And it seems even crazier to me that RCH parents don't want a middle school in their neighborhood.[/quote]

When the PL goes through the neighborhood and crosses over Jones Mill Road, where our kids are sitting in a school bus waiting for the PL to pass, or the PL is sitting at a stop light waiting for the vehicles to pass, it doesn't ease congestion in the least.  To the contrary, there are places along the PL where the congestion will increase unless they build bridges that are not planned at this time.  More development is seen as a threat because it takes out the few remaining acres of old growth forest.  Which will increase pollution and bring on more development which will in turn decrease our quality of life.  People bought homes in suburban neighborhoods.  The state of Maryland is turning those suburban neighborhoods into urban areas.  Not everybody is excited, even if you are.

Back to the original topic: how would everybody like it if the BOE decided to redistrict everybody.  I understand some of the SS middle schools are under capacity.  That would be fiscally responsible but politically untenable.  It would mean RCH could keep their park.  [/quote]

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