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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just out of curiousity, all you Lynnbrook booster(s) - how many of you are there and how many of you live in Rock Creek Hills?

I have no dog in this fight, but I don't see the inherent advantage of Lynnbrook over RCH - if anything, the Kensington neighborhood has less congestion and will be easier to access, plus the site is larger. So what's the hangup?[/quote]

I don't have a dog in this fight either. I don't live in Kensington, nor do I live near the Lynnbrook site, but after all this discussion I drove by there. I have to concur that it would be a good site for a middle school because as one poster said, it has few trees, a lot of parking lot and a couple (actually I think 3) decrepit buildings. I can't imagine tearing those down would be as much of a loss as building in what is now a park (I drove by RCH park also). I don't understand why the Lynnbrook site was eliminated in the last go round in spring. Why is MCPS protecting that site? Anybody??[/quote]

The difference is significant. Construction in a park (RCH) takes away genunine natural resources. M-NCPPC  wants to avoid losing those vanishing assets, but also is fighting to retain the playing fields (soccer in particular) downcounty. Replacemnt of an aging building (Lynnbrook) by MCPS using its own 3 parcels would be a good sign of things to come in county inter-agency cooperation. Asking Parks to offer their 3 adjoining parcels  of Lynnbrook local park may more agreeable solution than RCH.  I'm no tree hugger, but anyone should see that increasing devlopment at expense of parkland, woods is poor long-term planning. Agency's need to make the most of what they have. Housing a private daycare and a dozen employees in a former elementary school (Lynnbrook) is poor use of county building.

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This doesn't really make much sense to me.  You make it sound as if the middle school will just move into the existing building at Lynnbrook, instead of what would really happen is the building would have to be demolished, and probably the entire site (including the local park) regraded.  That building isn't really useful for anything at this point (the fact that a daycare can operate out of a few ground floor rooms is just sort of a bonus).  It's pretty obvious that some parkland, and possibly woods, will be lost to the new school-- that may be at RCH, it may be a Lynnbrook, it may by at NCC or the site by the Coffield center-- so it's odd to pretend that one site is vastly more important than another as parkland, unless it's your neighborhood, I guess.[/quote]

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