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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I agree with that read. They are not adding all the seats they initially planned at Career Center. And they are not adding amenities. Keeping it a program with fewer amenities. Makes sense. Overall this document suggests APS is in a better position than we thought. But need to get cracking now on elementary seats!![/quote]

That's not how I read it at all. Look at this: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/190917_ACC-BLPC-PFRC-Leave-Behind.pdf

800 ADDITIONAL seats PLUS expand AT to 600 ASAP.

They are planning on amenities including one field, performing arts space, and a full size gym and cafeteria.

It's basically a down payment on a 4th HS. That's how I read it. But they can't flip the switch on that until they can boot Montessori off the site. Oh and plan for a pool now.[/quote]

What is really concerning in the link just posted above is the reference to "Future phases of expansion to allow as many different options as possible for phasing, instructional programs and outdoor athletic facilities, [b]including possible neighborhood High School seats
(as and when needed in the future)[/b]"[/quote]

Just another APS get-by-one-piece-at-a-time crap of a non-plan.  As much as this phased band-aid approach costs, they could just build a blasted 4th high school at Kenmore now.[/quote]

But here’s their problem: they aren’t ever going to be able to build a stadium, a baseball diamond, and maybe not the pool either. Not ever, not even if Montessori is moved. That means a LOT of kids would be zoned to a HS where most of their sports are “away.” They’d have to have a deal with another school and/or with Long Bridge for games and practices. Also, let’s assume Arl Tech is popular and fills to 600 kids, maybe even has a wait list. And that the CTE classes remain popular, same thing. To make the CC site a neighborhood school, you have to either end those programs or relocate them. Do you really think we’ll magically find land and money to rebuild those somewhere else? I don’t. So while I do think their super secret stupid plan is to have us build this with “flexibility” in mind so that they can pull the switcheroo, I don’t think they’ll be successful because the Arl Tech and CTE lobby will be too strong at that point, and the surrounding neighborhoods, rightly so, don’t want to be zoned to the one HS where kids have to be bused away for all their sports. I think it’s a really crappy way to act to the neighborhoods who already had the whole Streetcar switch pulled, wherein they agreed to a whole lot of increased density and affordable housing set-asides, to then have the transit project that was supposed to be the lynchpin cancelled. But they didn’t cancel the density or AH. And now they’re adding 1400 students plus staff and maybe no underground parking. That would make sense IF THE STREETCAR HADN’T BEEN CANCELLED.

The giant Kenmore site is going to be wasted, especially if they build another K-8 school on that parcel. The neighborhood is going to be just as angry about another school, and we don’t use the only site we have that’s large enough for a real HS with full amenities to do it. Horrible planing.

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