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The Planning Board and the County Council allow developers to build. It's not a MCPS decision.

Also, there is a development moratorium when enrollment is projected to exceed 120% of school capacity in the next 5 years. MCPS says that the Northwood, Gaithersburg, Einstein, and Wheaton clusters are projected to go over.

http://www.gazette.net/article/20141031/NEWS/141039752/-1/montgomery-school-officials-say-development&template=gazette[/quote]

Except at the elementary level, they look to see if the average of elementary capacity in the cluster is overcapacity by 120%. So you could have one very overcapacity school with lots of new construction because neighboring schools are under-capacity. [/quote]

Yes, I think that's possible. Can you give an example of where that is actually happening, though? Also, what do you think the county should do about it?[/quote]

There are several schools in my area (lower DCC) and throughout the county that have over 120% capacity. However, as far as I know, there is not halt to new development, unless the cluster as whole has elementary capacity over 120%.  I would suggest that the county looks at capacity in the catchment area for each individual elementary school to make these decisions, since families moving to new developments won't have a choice to attend other schools in the cluster. [/quote]

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