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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.arlnow.com/2018/02/26/county-board-approves-contested-ballston-development/
Oh look, more affordable housing and family units clustered right in Ballston. All to enrich developers. What school will reap the benefits of this decision? Glebe? Hey, as long as it's walkable who cares about overcrowding. Good thing the superintendent is increasing class sizes.

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Isn't there a ton of empty office space in Ballston. Why is this county so against vertical schools. I realize it isn't the best, but it seems like there are a few place in this county where we could place a vertical school (Ballston and Crystal City). I mean somehow the children of NYC survive. You could create playground on the roof or/and innovated indoor play spaces with lots of access to natural light.

Anyway, I am sure this idea has been mentioned before, I am just not sure why the county seems so resistant to it. I mean elementary schools don't even need all the field spaces HS have so it seems like it would work better with ES. And you can put a green space on an ES roof or make an atrium with green space? It just seems like everyone is married to this idea traditional ES designs when we could think outside the box and get some more space for new schools  [/quote]

Building a custom elementary school with field space on the roof would cost crazy amounts of money. Few of the office buildings are configured for schools, and most are too big for one school. So want your 3rd grade sharing an elevator with rando office workers?

Building vertical is VERY expensive and existing office building don’t work as schools.

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I am not saying it isn't expensive, it just seems that if there is no space for no elementary schools I am not sure what else to do. It seems like a solution for when we have run out of space. Are we not at that point now? If we aren't at that point and there is vacant space in Arlington where we can build more schools please let me know. [/quote] There is tons of space. They're called community centers and they are completely unnecessary. [/quote]

They seem well used when I visit them, but sure.  
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In the mid 1950s Arlington had 38 elementary schools. Can you believe it? Not saying opening old ones is the solution ( they're prob torn down or turned into senior centers) but it would be interesting to see an old map of them. I would have no prob sending my kid to a high rise school. I mean, the schools I went to shared the same architecture as prisons, so who cares if its a safe pleasant environment for learning.[/quote]

really 38? That is interesting. I would love to see that map. I mean my kid currently goes to a school that is mostly underground. At least a high rise would give the kids windows! I actually don't understand why more of the current schools aren't built up. I mean guess part of it is that they don't want a lot of kids at each school but I thought I heard that Patrick Henry was built with the idea that they could add on to the top of the school when the time came. [/quote]

I believe that's Reed - although now they aren't doing that simple pop-up expansion.  Don't really understand why.

However, the career center expansion/replacement is likely to be a high-rise style building.  Look at the career center working group page for a bunch of examples of urban/high-rise high schools.[/quote]

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