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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think this point just reinforces the PP's comment that no one wants to lose their park. Although, I find it interesting that MCPS was willing to take an undersized park site with a 50' - 70' drop in topology, obliterate all its trees on acres of land, and build such a building, and yet now it seems to have found a new sensitivity in connection with a site that it owns outright. [/quote]

You're putting words in MCPS's mouth, RCH resident. The "new sensitivity" you describe above was in NO way MCPS's. It's mine, and it refers to an earlier comment about getting creative and building up on urban sites, blah blah blah. If you are freaking out about a school in your neighborhood (which I will never understand,) just imagine how much more you'll freak out if the school is six stories high instead of three. And I'm simply pointing out, AGAIN, that the Lynnbrook site is at the BARE minimum area recommended for a middle school, in fact it is smaller than the Rock Creek Hills site. [/quote]

You started your post with, "I'm sane, and reporting what MCPS's chief architect told the committee." Further, if you're commenting on a prior post, it helps to include the quote.  Your post appears like a free standing comment.

I'm not arguing to take any park at this point.  Your statement about Lynbrook being smaller than RCH is misleading. With respect gross acreage, RCH is larger, but when you analyze both sites from the standpoint of acreage available to build, as the feasibility study states, at least 5.1 acres of forest exist on the site.  Without Park and Planning's approval to remove those acres, which will include the removal of champion and specimen trees, RCH is 2 acres smaller than Lynbrook.[/quote]

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