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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wasn't there last night and don't know who this Lois person is - but I don't believe it would be possible to keep a football field (and team) from the 32 acre Kenmore site.  The site can handle it.  Most folks in Arlington would see that as unfair.  
Is this Lois person an elected official?  She is not the decision maker.  How would Lois know what the people of the county will and won't accept?  And will and wont be willing to pay for?  Sounds like a red herring to me.  [/quote]

She's a member of FAC, and she co-wrote the report that got these options on the table in the first place, so slow your roll. I wasn't there but I suspect she was pointing out that they can't get all those things at Kenmore now, because there's an ES and MS on the land that they can't just tear down. So a comprehensive zoned school at Kenmore would be, at least temporarily, less than. It just would be. Also, she's done a lot of work on the schools committee of CivFed. Another member (or former member) of the school committee of CivFed said on AEM that there's just not enough bonding capacity for all of these things. Underground parking is $$$$$$, and the more complicated a site it, the more difficult it is to build for reasonable cost. We don't have an unlimited pot of money and we are very far behind the curve. In order to build as many seats as possible as quickly as possible, we may have to accept that we can't have high schools each with their own pools and stadiums any longer. If that's the case, then I think the school board needs to make that message plain and we need to have a community conversation about how we're going to deal with our new reality in an equitable way. [/quote]

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