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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NIMBYs and other criticism may want to reconsider their opposition to DPR taking over this field.  The alternative, proposed by some in the Office of Planning as well as housing advocates, is to build dense subsidized public housing on the Ellington field site if it is underused for recreational purposes.  The site is near several bus lines and Georgetown hospital.  And the mayor really wants to add significant affordable housing west of Rock Creek Park.[/quote]

You can not use the field because they will not let anyone reserve the field and the neighbors do not want anyone of “those” type of people in their neighborhood. So no way in hell will the space be used for a new high school or developed for housing. The neighborhood will not let it happen. Now jeffell field is a prefect location for development.

The current state and use of the field shows why the field should not remain with DCPS.[/quote]

The field is way too small for a new high school.  The high school should be at the Western HS site currently occupied by Duke Ellington.  Move Ellington downtown or even out to PG (where is seems a lot of it’s students live already).[/quote]

The Ellington building would cost yet another hundred million to make it work for a regular high school. Then you need to acquire new property and build another arts high school, which isn’t  cheap because an arts education is expensive. It also makes no sense at all to build another high school, given the vast capacity in the rest of the city.

The economy has slowed. DC is going to struggle to finish renovating the schools that have not yet been touched.

No new high school but let’s invest in the comprehensives and make them stronger  - like providing state of the art science AND tech AND math education at McKinley. Build on what we have. [/quote]

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