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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As long as part of the upzoning plan includes rezoning a portion of areas for schools and the county is prepared to purchase land to build new schools, I’d be ok with this. Cramming more kids into our already overcrowded schools? Nope.  I don’t want to hear, “house the kids first then worry about the schools.”  [/quote]

Schools don't need special zoning. Northwood, Blair, and Forest Knolls are zoned R-60. Odessa Shannon and Arcola are zoned R-90.[/quote]

Great. Is the county allocating more funding to purchase properties and build more schools to support the families that will move into the new housing?[/quote]

So, here's the issue.

The University Boulevard Corridor Plan makes [u]recommendations[/u]. Even though the County Council adopts corridor plans (and sector plans, etc.), the recommendations do not have the force of law. Zoning does have the force of law, but again, zoning only establishes the framework for what can get built. Zoning doesn't build things. Meanwhile, there's MCPS, which is a whole, completely separate agency, and MCPS is who decides about schools. The Planning Board has no authority over MCPS decisions, with one tiny exception (forest conservation plans). And the County Council allocates money to MCPS but has no authority over what MCPS spends it on.

So if you expect the University Boulevard Corridor Plan to result in more funding to buy property to build schools on, well, it won't do that, because it [u]can't[/u] do that.[/quote]

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