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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a few house owners get to complain and dictate what 1000s of kids going through Murch will have? Wow [/quote]

There were plenty of people from houses not directly around Murch complaining too.

People should look at the plan. Notice anything missing? I find it amazing that thing was even submitted - and I am not talking about putting the soccer field on the NPS land when NPS hasn't agreed to let them touch that land. [/quote]

This. The direct neighbors are not complaining about anything different from the rest of the community, except for the fact that DGS had not followed protocol to inform them as they have done in every other major project in the city. This is a project that is more than doubling the size of a building in a residential neighborhood and almost completely eliminating the most used playground and park in the area. They are doubling the designed population of the block and have failed to adequately consider traffic patterns, parking, and safety of the children. Of course the community needs to have a say. The whole Murch project really seems to be an afterthought for the city. All of the issues that have yet to be addressed were brought to DGS, DCPS, DME and the Councils's attention repeatedly over the last three years by the school community, and they still have not addressed any of the very serious issues. Because they failed to do so, they are now rushing to build a totally separate second school building on the grounds the existing one without thinking through these very real issues. The current plan plops two full size elementary schools onto one small triangular lot - a lot smaller than Mann's, which they built for 1/3 the population (as if that makes any sense from a city planning perspective).

Once it is built, the community (not just the immediate neighbors) will be stuck with this monstrosity forever, not matter what happens to the school population. It has to be a plan that make sense.[/quote]

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