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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody in North Arlington seems to know why people in South Arlington hate the Kenmore idea.  I'm sorry, but North Arlington people on my team, doesn't that give you pause a bit?

Did you hear Lois at the meeting last night saying a 4th Comprehensive probably wouldn't get a full football field or a pool?  If we were putting a school like that in North Arlington, you think parents would sit for that?

The School Board came up with these 3 options of Kenmore, the Ed Center, and Arlington Tech space, but apparently there had been two others that were nixed because a high school would have been located too close to an elementary school.  But that's essentially what Kenmore will be left with EVEN IF the middle school is eventually moved out of that space, which there is no immediate plan to do, meaning that there will be 3 schools basically on top of one another.  Don't we care about that issue just as much if it's in the south?

It's all good and well of you to say to take the parking spaces out so high schoolers won't drive, but I don't see you rushing to take them out of W-L or Yorktown.  So there is more inequity.

Is it true that there are no/few bike racks at Kenmore because traffic is so nuts that they don't want to encourage bike riding since it will result in accidents?

It is rich for people in the North to keep talking about "the greater good" when they are not being asked to sacrifice their parks and their amenities.  I am one of those people in the North who is pro-Kenmore as a fourth site!  But we can't keep dismissing the actual concerns of the people who live in the affected area!  Did any of us go to the Glen Carlyn meeting to hear what those concerns were?  No!  WTF is wrong with us?[/quote]

I am the PP talking about parking and I explicitly said no parking for ANY high school students.

And we talked about the pool and stadium -- and the idea was to consolidate all high schools into one stadium, not just kenmore. It is a large central site, maybe it would get the only stadium. Don't see why they can't have pool, it's a huge plot.

What other two sites were rejected as too close to elem -- why is that not being raised at all???[/quote]

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