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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Considering the county has a hard time finding new space for schools, I think the Ag reserve and other green spaces should be on the table for new school construction.  MoCo cant on one hand keep green lighting housing projects then claim there is no land to build new school to absorb the new students.  They need to find a way to make it happen and it might involve some hard choices.[/quote]

Hard disagree. Our agricultural lands should be protected forever. You build a school then you have a parking lot. You have roads leading up to it and housing be gets built up around it. This is not a good idea.[/quote]

Other option might be to stop allowing overdevelopment in close-in areas, preserving remaining parks, stopping the trading of county-owned properties there for that owned by developers farther out, requiring area infrastrucute coincident with area development (as opposed to as an afterthought), etc.[/quote]

What constitutes "overdevelopment"? Which parks aren't being preserved? Would you prefer for the development to be in far-out areas on former farmland?[/quote]

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