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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, PP, if it's the size of the site itself that is your major concern, then do you also advocate moving BCC? Because BCC doesn't meet the 20 acre minimum either; and yet it seems to function pretty well as a high school with much larger capacity than is planned for the new middle school.

Besides, when I see RCH parents demanding the North Chevy Chase park site be reconsidered - despite the fact that it sits smack dab in the midst of traffic hell thanks to the expansion of NIH and BRAC with no traffic mitigation -it's hard to avoid the sense that the neighborhood just doesn't want a school under any circumstances. Still baffled by that attitude (and for that matter by the people near the original site over near RHPS who opposed it as well.) [/quote]

Well, for one thing, BCC has been there since 1935, and it is in the middle of an urbanized area.  So, no one is going to assert that it is changing the community.

BCC is 17 (?) flat acres.  RCHP is 13.4 acres, over half of which slopes 50 feet to a tributary of Rock Creek.  BCC also is bounded by a four lane road, and access to the site is from that road (there are turning restrictions from the west, and you can’t access the neighborhood to the east. RCHP is bounded by a simple road with no divided lanes, part of which, has parking restricted on one side (yes, the naming convention changes from Saul to Haverhill to Littledale, but physically, we are talking about one curved road).  BCC also doesn’t have enough field space; its teams use Bethesda-Lynbrook, which is why that site was eliminated by the SSAC (I never understood that argument), and RCHP, which is being eliminated.

As for NCC Park, you are incorrect.  That site is receiving substantial funding for BRAC remediation, including alteration of the intersection and the streets along all four compass points.  Further, a road extension is being discussed that will carry traffic around that intersection.

For the record, I don’t think you should remove parks from areas that are congested, like the down-county area.  We still have alternatives, some of which have been raised on this board, and which the SSAC never explored because the members sat there like lemmings and took what was fed them by MCPS in two meetings.  It was a joke and, as found by the Open Meetings Compliance Board, a violation of the law.

Look, I have done the Westland and BCC drives, and all I can say is be careful what you ask for.  If this school is built, unless you live in that neighborhood, driving to that school will be a nightmare, no matter how they configure it.
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