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You can build a larger building and then close off the excess capacity, as PP suggested.  In DC, excess DCPS capacity is sometimes used by co-locating charters.  Couldn't badly-needed childcare centers utilize excess space until the school needs more room?  I see old elementary schools being used by nursery schools and daycares all the time.  MCPS could take some of those schools back and have developers foot the cost of renovating them.  In Bethesda, there are no large tracts of land to site a brand-new ES, although there's an old elementary school near Whitman being used as a nursery school, and another elementary school on Sangamore that is being leased by the Waldorf School.  My understanding is that the Waldorf's lease was just extended for another 10 years.  That lease should be on the table.  There is otherwise little excess land in Bethesda for new school sites, but [b]there is no reason why MCPS could not require developers to foot the bill for new/renovated schools or additions once new residential units hit a certain threshold.[/b]  But if MCPS doesn't make any of this part of the development plan, the opportunity for cost-sharing is lost.  It's not as if developers don't profit from having good schools nearby, so I don't understand MoCo's reluctance to push developers to do more, and MCPS's relative lack of interest in the entire process.  Would it kill MCPS to do some advance modeling of different scenarios at some point before hundreds of new children have moved into a development, and provide some useful input into the planning process instead of being entirely reactionary?[/quote]

Wilson Wims ES cost $23.6 million. You're saying that the developer should pay the full cost of that?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/first-day-of-classes-brings-202nd-school-to-montgomery/2014/08/24/7d6eef96-2177-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

For what it's worth, I assume that MCPS actually is doing advance modeling of different scenarios. But that's just an assumption -- you could ask Bruce Crispell, to find out for sure.[/quote]

I don't know how much developers should pay, but not zero.  Also, I did ask and Bruce Crispell confirmed last night that MCPS is NOT doing advance modeling.  They are really just going to wait and see what happens before they start any planning.[/quote]

Developers don't pay zero.

http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/Pubs/BudgetFiscal/2013-Impact-Fees-excise-taxes.pdf

If MCPS really isn't doing ANY advance modeling, that's odd.[/quote]

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