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The old Hardy school property is 1.1 acres. Supposedly the lease with Lab school allows the city to use 20% of the DCPS land (.22 acres).  And yet the city is telling people that an 80,000 sq foot school building (not including sidewalks etc.) will "take" only 5% of the park (which I think is around 5 acress, hence 1 acre).  Meanwhile the 430 student Key elementary campus  (3.2 acre ) is claimed to be not large enough.  The Stoddert campus is larger....  Why doesn't the city produce actual architectuaral drawing of what the campus l would  like? a reasonable request[/quote]
The previous poster made a math error.  .2*1.1 + .05*5 = .22 + .25.  < .5 acres.  The city isclaiming it will build a 550 studnet campus (class rooms, gym, cafeteria, library, other common rooms etc...) , common outdoor gathering area  (pavement or blacktop--the kids won't be gathering on the grass) sidewalks, a driveway, areas for dumpsters, utility units (AC units etc) parking  on less than a half of an acre of land. Anyone with a brain  can see the Mayor's/DCPS's/Cheh 's "claims" about how the field other greenspace wont be touched are rediculous. .  But people pushing the consturction of the school on hardy park have their own adgenda. thats fine--but cut with the lies[/quote]

Your straw men are as bad as your spelling. No one who supports the school has any need to lie about anything as DCPS' plans have been made clear by the schematics they've distributed. And those schematics - which opponents of a public school in Foxhall either haven't seen or, more likely, find it convenient to ignore - show that the new school will occupy part of the parking area leased by LAB to the southeast of the Old Hardy building, the embankment and sideline area that lies between the existing soccer field and that LAB parking lot, the outdoor basketball court, and possibly also the Rec Center (which would be co-located).[/quote]

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