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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where does the ANC derive the authority to ask for/enforce this cap?  [/quote]

The cap was part of the zoning order with the permit application when the GDS high school, and later the full school, moved into the neighborhood. The cap is the cap and it is there for safety reasons, ie fire marshall/building codes etc - so if GDS was in violation, it isn't necessarily for neighborhood traffic that is an issue, but rather how many people (staff, faculty, students) are in the space physically.

And if I were a member of the GDS community, I would be concerned that the school wasn't managing this properly.

The ANC is not the bad guy here.[/quote]

It’s not there for fire safety reasons. Carpool lines are not plugging up for hydrants or resi blocks. They are on campus winding around 1. [/quote]

If GDS signed a voluntary agreement with the ANC(which is different vs the zoning agreement) and choose to ignore it. GDS’s leadership is at fault. The HOS admits that many of the GDS parents do not use the agreed to drop offline and he refuses to police those parents. This “dispute” shows the incompetence of the school administration given that the ANC agreement is tied to the Zoning Agreement’s cap size increase. All the school had to do was count cars at the drop offline, report it the ANC and remove the parents who can not comply.

I have never heard of a school giving the finger to the community, ANC, zoning board, DC Department of a Transportation, etc. It is bizarre behavior for a HOS or school administration. No other school has this self caused problem. The HOS needs to step up and show the bad actor parents the door. GDS has a waiting list.[/quote]

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