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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The site is very level so minimal grading would be needed. [/quote]

Either we have different understandings as to what constitutes "minimal" or we are talking about different  Lynnbrook parks, because the Lynnbrook that I've visited has several different hills used for sledding.

I don't want to defend MCPS or represent that they do a good job of long range planning, but I do think it's unfair to suggest that that they represent an ongoing threat to parkland, without also acknowledging that they have created parks as well.  I think a PP suggested that what MCPS should have done a while back is trade the RCH site to the Parks dept. for another park, but really what is the difference between doing that then and doing it now?[/quote]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding these posts, but I think the prior poster was arguing that if a park is to be used, it should be a park that represents the least harm to system, and that MCPS should have some "skin" in the game.  Hence, the reference to Lynbrook, half of which is owned by MCPS.  As for the comments about MCPS's appetite for parkland, it was MCPS that made reference to parks as vacant land.  Finally, regarding fairness to MCPS, you are a kinder person than I am, but, is it really accurate to say that MCPS created any parks?  Or, did it just offer the land up (with reclaim rights) while it wasn't being used, allowing Parks to create the parks.  Perhaps it's a technical point, and maybe I've missed something in this middle school saga, but have we ever seen MCPS express an interest in private land beyond pointing to its cost as a justification for taking parks?  I don't know.[/quote]

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