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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OR

You could wait and actually see plans when they are released and then comment on it.

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Clearly DGS is damned if they do and damned if they don't here.   They decided to talk to the community to get input and concerns before developing a plan.  Seemed like a very reasonable and sensible plan to me.  Hear what the community thinks and then create a design with that feedback in mind.  Instead, they are criticized for trying to deceive people by not having a plan before the community meetings.

Let's be honest here-- the neighbors who are against the "others" coming into their neighborhood regardless of what the plan will look like.  Then there are people (like me and many that I know) who are interested in learning about it, open to the idea, and waiting to see the actual design before chaining ourselves to the trees.[/quote]

This is a complete red-herring.  The neighbors already have lots and lots of "others" coming into their neighborhood nearly every day.  Think Sidwell Friends, Hearst School (still mostly out of boundary enrollment), with the vast majority of students and staff in both schools arriving by car.  And Hearst Park is heavily used by people from outside the neighborhood, particularly the large playing field.  That's partly the point:  no one wants to lose this field.[/quote]

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