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[quote=Anonymous]Because GDS buys all this land, spends all this money for upzoning, and ends up with a campus smaller than what it has now.  Meanwhile it's permanently hedged in on one side and it will have created a traffic nightmare in those few blocks.

GP has a 90 acre campus for 490 high school aged kids (including 125 boarders).  GDS will have 1200 kids, all commuters, aged 4-19 on a 7 acre campus.  Plus they want to add a 200+ apartments in the adjacent 3/4 acre lot (plus some current public rights-of-way they hope to privatize) that they're turning over to a developer.  It's a project with much greater and more detrimental impact than what you've experienced as a neighbor of GP.

Some of the difference, of course, is city vs. suburb.  But to make a more apples to apples comparison, Sidwell's campus, with a population comparable to GDS's, is about 3x as large -- and it's pretty much surrounded by SF homes (and a PO), so the density is much lower even though, it too, is along upper Wisconsin Avenue.  GDS's combined project really will create a nightmarish situation for some of the neighbors, I think.  [/quote]

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