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[quote=Anonymous]Just to clarify, as someone who was involved in the process and went to the site selection committee meetings, the first site was opposed by the Lyttonsville neighborhood, and it became clear that it would be legally difficult to convert the site from a park to a middle school, as a PP said.

As a result, MCPS went back to the drawing board and organized a second site selection process. At that point, a variety of possible alternatives were considered. From what I could tell, the site on Jones Bridge Road never seemed to generate much serious consideration. It wasn't a function of neighbors' objections (as a PP incorrectly suggested above)- it was mostly about the traffic considerations. The site is right next door to NIH, and the road in and out is already a mad traffic jam for hours due to all the traffic associated with NIH. (That is why streets nearby were made one-way, to cope with an insane influx of traffic in that area. FYI, when the BRAC process relocated Walter Reed to the NIH compound, it was supposed to incorporate dedicated access from the Beltway; that was nixed due to security considerations after 9/11, which resulted in dumping tens of thousands of additional cars per day onto neighborhood streets.)

There were also some issues with the NCC site that involved nuclear material on the site, as I recall. As far as I could tell, the only people who were pushing for that site were the people who live in the neighborhood near the site that was eventually chosen in Kensington/Rock Creek Hills.

There are some creative conspiracy theories going on here, but the idea that NCC and CCES communities are somehow responsible for the mess surround MS#2 is really unfair.[/quote]

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