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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of folks seem to think the Career Center site is a shoe-in for a fourth comprehensive high school.  But a lot of people think Kenmore makes more sense, regardless of the current traffic complaint.  So, given the current process to add seats to the Career Center site and the very limited budget and phased approach to increasing capacity there, why should that be the location for a fourth comprehensive high school?  Considering the various programs and the elementary school currently there, and the acreage being less than a third of the acreage at Kenmore, how/why would this make sense?  How/why would this be the most efficient and feasible solution to high school capacity in the timeframe needed?

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It’s not just a “severe” traffic complaint, and the fact that the local neighborhood fought tooth and nails against this in full force. 
In addition to that, Murphy’s staff had done a comprehensive analysis of several sites last year and found that the main problem was a “lack of egress” and that the property borders to Fairfax County and issues that pertained to that. With that full analysis Murphy’s staff ruled the Kenmore site completely out for further consideration for a high school or any other school  (they had hoped for an additional elementary school there at one time, too, which had been shot down, too).  You can probably still find the papers of that analysis online. It’s not happening at the Kenmore site.  That ship has sailed.[/quote]

It's sailed, yes.  But not because of the reasons you cite.  Those are just the frosting to add to the rationale not to pushback against the neighborhood. Glencarlyn is the selfish neighborhood - not Arlington Heights which HAS asked for the high school to be built in their neighborhood.[/quote]

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