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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The park is at the core of the RCH community, and for a number of legal and other substantive reasons, it is not available for conversion from use as a park.  Those reasons have been identified by a several posters in the previous pages and are available for your review.

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False. Both MCPS and the Parks department have said RCH is available for use as a middle school. I am getting really tired of the RCH blogger who seems to have taken over this forum. Enough already, we get it, you're going to fight tooth and nail and hold your breath till you turn blue if they pick RCH for the new middle school. [/quote]

Well, I can see where you might get confused following the twists and turns of this story, but no, the Parks department has said no such thing.

As for MCPS, staff claimed that the use of federal Land and Water Conservation Funds and/or state Program Open Space funds to develop Rock Creek Hills Park does not result in any encumbrances to conversion of the site to non-park use. They based this conclusion on one letter taken from a stream of communications between citizens and government officials. However, both the recipients and the author of the letter acknowledge that the letter was followed by other communications, that substantive issues still exist and are pending, and that the author of the letter committed to responding to the substantive issues. The core issue is that parks developed with LWCF and/or POS funds are protected by strict conversion restrictions, and arbitrary limits on enforcement of these restrictions have no basis in law.
 
Again, the only documentation that has been produced regarding the development of Rock Creek Hills Park are official records of the State of Maryland that say that money from the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund was used. The claim that this is *not* the case – that *no* federal LWCF funds were used – has no evidence to support it. As citizens, we are entitled to rely upon official public records.

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