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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP ,

Even Mayor voted for building more apartments in RM cluster despite schools being at 120%.

She made a U turn regarding overcrowding. She voted to oppose the increase from 110% to 120% few years ago. But now she thinks it's perfectly all right to keep building more even after 120%.

Just avoid RM cluster. It's not for families who value education. With 3 kids, we made a poor choice and it will be hard to move out, but you don't need to make the same mistake.[/quote]
1. they are not all coming at once.
2. The wegman development mostly impacts WJ cluster, not RM
[b]3. it will take  few years
4. .. at which point, MCPS may well rezone this entire area[/b]

They sky isn't falling quite yet.  Take a breath.[/quote]

There is no rezoning scheduled in few years. Stop spreading misinformation.[/quote]
[b]Crown HS will be built in a few years. [/b]The entire area will be rezoned.   [/quote]

I guess city leaders are as irrational as you. MCPS takes minimum of 8 years to build a HS after it's funded. It's not even funded.

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Even before this development came to be, MCPS CIP had RMHS over 120% in 5 years, and thus they knew they were going to have to do something about the HS.  They were looking at building an addition to the HS.  Instead, because of Crown HS, they are holding off on the addition because RM will be rezoned once Crown HS is built, so the numbers will look different.  Again, this was before this development.

http://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP20_Chap4_RM.pdf
[quote]
 Projections indicate enrollment at Richard Montgomery High School will exceed capacity by 200 seats or more by the end of the six-year planning period. An FY 2016
appropriation was approved for facility planning to determine the feasibility, scope, and cost for a classroom addition. In lieu of the addition, the approved CIP includes expenditures in
the six-year period to open a new high school on the Crown Farm site to address overutilization in the mid-county region. [/quote]

Again.. even before this development, if Crown HS would not be built before the five year lookout, MCPS would have to address RM over utilization. [b] Now.. *if* RM cluster goes above 120% before the 5 year period, then MCPS will have to address the over utilization earlier. [/b] Yes... the cluster may be a bit over 120% for one or two years before Crown HS is built.

As I stated, I am not happy about the development, and I have sent emails to the city about it, but I'm also not panicking thinking the sky is falling.[/quote]

MCPS is not going to build anything early. They have their time line and budget. They were on record on this during a work session. [/quote]

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