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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bump. This still seems to be moving forward. What do people think?[/quote]

I looked at the slides but didn't see the meeting itself. Did they discuss the fact that they've abandoned the plan to add parking to the facility that's going to have 2,000-3,000 students attending?[/quote]

They haven't really discussed staging at all. So there will be parking, but the parking structure gets built last and you know that means it may not actually be built ... [b]and the interim parking solution means there is no green space on the site at all for 5 years while you continue to have 1000s of students there.[/b]

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Well, there really isn't any green space there now anyway.  And there's almost zero parking now that there are 8 trailers on the parking lot.
Unfortunately, though, you're right.  This project doesn't even have a budget yet.  It's guaranteed to go over whatever budget it does end up with.  The County is anti-parking.  So, the most logical "cut" to stay "near" budget will be to just not ever build the parking structure.

Screw all those option families coming from across the county for all the programs on that site.  Screw all the residents surrounding the site.  It will be interesting to see how many people ultimately move out of Arlington Heights because of this short-sighted project.  Maybe APS could buy their houses, tear them down and convert them into fields and parking lots.[/quote]

I'm talking about green space on the whole site. The Montessori part of the site has a fair amount of field space, which the HS apparently uses some now. But every ounce of that disappears during the entire construction period (5 years) to become a gravel parking lot.[/quote]

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