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[quote=Anonymous][img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7QwScI73wFI/Thupj0PbnoI/AAAAAAAAVaQ/Ti2qQMTYzPc/s1600/SidebySide_final.gif[/img]

As the photo shows, you can't put a new school where the old school was, because there are people living there now. They are the two hundred elderly residents of the Kensington Park retirement community, built by our county's Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC) with tax-exempt bonds, where much of the former Kensington Junior High School once stood. These frail elderly live in three wings, devoted to independent living, assisted living, and Alzheimer's & Dementia Care.

After the old KJH was razed, the county decided to devote the former school site to co-location of an elder housing facility with a small (two-field) soccer & neighborhood park. About one-third of the land was deeded, with no right of reclaim, to the HOC. This took from the remainder of the site – today's Rock Creek Hills Park – much of the buildable land, road access to the North, and a through North-South roadway that were part of the full former school site.

And: No content has ever been removed from http://SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org [/quote]

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