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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP.  I don't have strong feelings one way or the other about repurposing the Madison building, but I do live close by and it seems like a great option if the capacity issue is as dire as it's being painted to be.  What I think comes out on a thread like this is that  Arlington doesn't lack space or options to provide adequate seats for our kids, it just has difficult choices to make and everyone freaks out when that decision disrupts the status quo.  Is it really a capacity crisis, or is it just a collosal failure to reach something resembling a consensus? Why would a community whose property values are tied so directly with the quality of its schools jeopordize that advantage by squabbling over dog parks?  [/quote]

The people fighting against this stuff bought in the 70's and 80's. They aren't worried about their property values and they hate those who living in 1.1+ McMansions. They also don't have kids I the schools anymore. They are assholes.[/quote]

Maybe but in the 70s and 80s that area was some of the most expensive real estate in the Metro area. Still is. It's relative.[/quote]

[b]In the 70's and 80's those areas were filled with mid level feds.[/b] Not dual income big law.[/quote]

Nope. Talk to the locals who grew up there in the 60s and 70s. Taylor and Madison (and Stratford Jr. High) had a reputation as schools where the "rich kids" went. All those neighborhoods up and down Military Road and Lorcom Lane were very expensive then. The Broyhill houses were the less expensive ones and the exception. [/quote]

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