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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The community that was to be zoned to the Blake lane site never got behind it.  Our kids are at Oakton ES, it is large, but I don’t know of anyone complaining.

Most neighbors didn’t want the school building and the extra traffic it would bring. It was never about the dog park it was about saving the open space. Plopping a 4 story building in a small neighborhood pocket park in the middle of a densely populated multi family/townhouse community was a hard sell.

Green space is in short supply. Cars, buildings, traffic, major roads not so much.

Lipstick on a pig is still a pig.

Very few people want to live adjacent to a school any school.

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At best, that makes the case that the school shouldn’t have been built at BLP.  It doesn’t make the case for spending the money elsewhere inefficiently.

The Dunn Loring school is going to be an albatross, eventually requiring far more boundary changes than necessary in another part of the county.  You didn’t want to get moved out of Oakton; others will end up unnecessarily moved later.

The money, if available for other uses, could have been spent more wisely.  Elementary school enrollments are projected in decline now, whereas middle school enrollments are projected to decline less and high school enrollments are expected to increase.

Karl thought he was being clever but he really is just creating more problems down the road (although if he’s voted out they’ll end up someone else’s problem to inherit). [/quote]

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