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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, your statement has got some major inaccuracies that I've seen repeated elsewhere on this site. You said:

"1. MS#2 site selection: Two sites for MS#2 were proposed that made more logical sense than the current location.

The first was to co-locate at RHES. Amazingly, the RCF neighborhood opposed this option because at the time they believed that access to Westland was better for their property values."

The first MS#2 site selection committee selected the Rosemary Hills/Lyttonsville Local Park as the site for the new middle school. This would have been close to, but not co-located with RHES. The Rock Creek Forest ES reps on the committee advocated for that site, on the premise that locating a middle school close to the RCF and Rosemary Hills neighborhoods would be beneficial to the families in the neighborhood, many of whom face transportation issues. Sounds familiar, right? The opposition that arose did not come from the Rock Creek Forest community but rather from the Lyttonsville and Rosemary Hills communities which attend RHES and NCC/CCES schools! So, you've got members of the CCES/NCC/RH communities to thank for scuttling both of the larger MS#2 school sites under consideration. 
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Not exactly.  The Lyttonsville and Rosemary Hills communities objected to the school at Rosemary Hills/Lyttonsville Local Park because the location had certain historical significance.  In addition, it provided an important recreational space for the nearby residents of multi-family dwellings.  Finally, the site, at least in part, was developed with Program Open Space funds, which restricted conversion from park use without undertaking a significant replacement process.[/quote]

PP here. Thank you for adding the detail about the reasons for the opposition. My point stands that opposition did not arise from the RCF community, but rather from the RH and Lyttonsville communities (which feed into CCES and NCC). RCF supported the location of the new middle school close to the eastern edge of the cluster in order to provide access to the families in the RCF, RH, and Lyttonsville areas. [/quote]

Don't mention it, but, to be fair, I don't think we can call guilt by association for the NCC and CCES people because, before the BOE, they weren't making the arguments against the park.[/quote]

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