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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused about why one poster is obsessed with the idea that the brand new school building is the "lesser" facility. It's a brand new building full of brand new things. The argument over "utilization" is one that is hard to get all riled up about for most people. One group will get a new building and shorter commutes, but the building will be closer to capacity initially. The other group will get an older building and short commutes and be less close to capacity initially. Both groups will get less overcrowding since they currently share the same building, meaning everyone will be able to spread out by 50%.

No plan is perfect and people can be disappointed that their favorite plan isn't the front runner, but the argument that there is massive inequality between these two schools over "utilization" under Option 7 is not going to get traction with most people. Most people are fine with Option 1 and the utilization balance is similar but reversed in terms of which school is nearer capacity. [/quote]

I have worked closely on issues surrounding development in our county.   Who cares about a new facility?  It will be an old facility overwelmed with kids in two to three years in need of portable classrooms and no grounds to build them on.  Most of the major development (apartments already in the works) will run up and down the path of the Purple Line and Chevy Chase Lake.  It won't be in a contained area like Westbard, it will stretch for miles at every station and the first four initial stations headed from Bethesda to Silver Spring are all in the new Middle Schools boundary.  It's like four Westbard developments at every station in the new middle boundary.  Chevy Chase Lake has already started.   The county lazily refused to take this into consideration when drawing middle school lines.   Give it 5 years, you just think people are screaming now.  Wait until the new school shine has worn off and the "new" middle is just crowded and old with no room to expand.  Even the RCF people will wonder what they were thinking.[/quote]

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