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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone looked at Jennie Dean park on Four Mile Run?  Already has lighted fields and parking, and the land/businesses adjacent could be taken via eminent domain.  Those buildings are nothing special.  And it's in S Arlington, which is where the need is.  It's not perfect geographically as it's a little more than a mile from Wakefield, but no site is perfect.  [/quote]

Flood Plain issues. APS will not build a school there, ever. Came out during the SAWG process. [/quote]

How about clear out all the crap where the bus depot/trades center is off Arlington Mill Dr and make that a school site?  You have to decentralize that stuff, but who cares?  That site is huge.[/quote]

They can't really decentralize the bulk of that operation (they maintain the vehicles there) and it doesn't make a lot of sense to have vehicle maintenance and vehicle storage and offices in three (or more) different places. They are going to have to have some satellite locations for some materials storage anyhow--the space on Arlington Mill isn't even big enough. At any rate, DES, like everything else in Arlington, is a victim of the county's success in being a great community. More people = more school buses, more ART buses, more police cars to store and maintain. Better service levels = more park maintenance vehicles, more trail maintenance vehicles, more plows to store and maintain. Higher environmental goals = bigger mulch/brush piles, bigger tankers to capture wastewater during repairs, more space to better manage materials inventory/reduce waste. And so on and so forth. [u]This is why parents need to pay attention to county issues and not just the schools[/u]. Any "solution" that solves a school problem but creates a county problem is going to be dismissed out of hand, yet we spend so much time talking about them![/quote]

I think you don't realize that parents are sick of this self-congratulatory crap about Arlington being a victim of its own success.  It's a victim of bad planning and poor coordination between APS and the county board.

You may not be willing to admit it yet, but school problems are, by definition, county problems.

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This. I get that it's a small county, with limited space. But the reality is that there is no place, anywhere in Arlington, to build a school that won't somehow "create problems" for some other interest group in the county. Traffic or loss of some green space or loss of county-owned community space or increased taxes or simply opportunity cost (once you take it for a school you can't use for some other purpose).

Do I think we should build schools in such a way that the associated "problems" are minimized? Absolutely. Is there a way to avoid those problems entirely? No.[/quote]

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