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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I do think this project is a win-win for GDS and for Tenleytown.[/quote]

Again why is this a win for Tenleytown?

GDS parents clearly think it is a winner though I'm not sure I understand the value of combining all of the schools onto 1 campus though perhaps parents want their little ones exposed to how to properly roll joints at a younger age.

And it is clearly a loser for the city which will forever lose two large parcels to development that will likely cost the city tens of millions in taxes per year forever.

But if you attended any of the ANC meetings where either of the various Safeway proposals were discussed or when any issues around GDS have been discussed you would know the neighbors of Safeway were foremost concerned about traffic and parking and the main complaint about GDS whenever they are discussed is students, parents and staffers parking on neighborhood streets and causing traffic, including the GDS buses using narrow residential side streets to avoid traffic on Wisconsin.

So the site is going to get more traffic, which will be worse because GDS wants to close 42nd Street so the street grid is about to shrink, but the neighborhood loses its grocery store.

GDS is going to claim they are adding green space but their current field is off limits to the community (and is turfed anyhow) and I would be shocked if they are going to spend all of this money and not host athletic events on some of the space which means more traffic and parking issues (from a suburban demographic that is not exactly rushing to take transit to the school now) and just wait until they propose lights on their field.

To recap the neighborhood is losing its grocery store and a street and gaining the traffic and parking problems it would have allegedly had with a mixed use project with none of the economic benefits to the neighborhood or city - so again enlighten those of us in Tenleytown about what the benefit is for us?[/quote]

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