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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The timeline is that they start the remodeling the day after school ends next year, so June 2016 and it will take 18 - 24 months from that point.  Any changes to the proposed design that would require approval from the Historical Preservation Review Board would add another 9 - 12 months to secure and would bring the schedule to a halt (likely losing all the funding in the process.)

The GSA guy was so good at the last meeting and he was certainly off at this one.

This meeting was an opportunity for people to comment on the plans that they sent around.  Comments focused on playground space and why they didn't dig down or up.  The architects are supposed to take all these comments and go back to the plans and try and incorporate them to be presented at the next meeting.

What they will hopefully also bring back are responses with costs attached so people can make informed decisions..."oh, so it will cost $15 million dollars to add a third floor, in that case lets have/not have a third floor"

The part that amazed me were the people from the neighborhood who want to delay the remodel for years because they don't feel that the neighbors have been informed or made aware of the renovations.  They were SHOCKED to find out that a renovation was being planned.
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[b]And this will impact them how???[/b] The neighbors that is. Insanity!!! I really hope they keep the plan to start renovating in June.  This has gone on long enough.[/quote]

You're joking right? [/quote]

I am fairly certain that the school was there before the neighbors.  If you buy near an elementary school there is going to be noise and there are going to be lots of people.  If your neighborhood has a popular school, it may be enlarged AND the neighbors are going to benefit from the high property values and chances are it will be renovated every 50 years or so.

I am not in the Murch neighborhood fwiw, but we always have complaining neighbors at our elementary school and I always wonder what they thought living next to or across the street from an elementary school would be like.[/quote]

Yes the school has been there (and unchanged since it was built!) but that doesn't mean the neighbors shouldn't voice their concerns. Murch is a center of the surrounding community and the grounds are in heavy use everyday. The neighbors aren't complaining about noise or lots of people. Crossing Davenport at 36th is scary in the morning because of the traffic. Many commuters zipping through all irritated by the drop offs and pedestrian. I have chased down many of them as the have almost clipped kids even with a parent belong the kids cross.

The plan is just a bad one. The addition is just poorly planned. I reviewed the Lafayette plans and there is cohesion between the old and the new. The current Murch design looks like a Different building they are just plopping down into the space. It just wasn't given much time or thought by the architects. [/quote]

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