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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"If you look at it, Wootton is probably one of the high schools that has the highest density of houses within it's one mile walking radius in a suburban/neighborhood setting. So when people point out how Blair relocated, they don't account for how Blair was and is at a major busy intersection and was always mostly made up of commuters and bus riders.

Take a look at page 42 of this document: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteasset...rt/02d_proximity.pdf
It says only 8.1 percent of Blair students are in the walk zone for Blair. If using the 2 mile walkshed it would be 31.22 percent."

Just on this point, I think PP is misinformed. The linked document appears to reference Blair's current location; the school was moved over 20 years ago. It's previous location was near DT Silver Spring and very walkable for many students.[/quote]

Silver Spring International is in the old Blair Building right?

It's a smaller walk zone (1.5 mile) but it's numbers are on page 529 of the document.

And it shows 23.24 percent of the students are in the walk zone, while 66.52 percent would've been in the walkshed.

I don't know if the extra half mile would close the gap between the two.[/quote]

And if anything the gap would be bigger because the walk zone ideally wouldn't be expanded if it's determined the area outside of the walking zone to not be walkable.  Unless  they're taking age into account.  ie high schoolers may be a bit more mature and safer for them to walk through some areas compared to middle school students.[/quote]

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