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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why people keep fixating on Wootton parkway, it’s old layout, one way traffic, certainly not what modern school campus about. [/quote]

And building a high capacity school in an urban, highly congested traffic area makes sense?  At least Wootton is in a residential neighborhood. [/quote]

Crown is also a residential neighborhood. Many students will be able to walk there.[/quote]

You know this isn’t a proper comparison. Crown is basically a huge shopping center that has some apartments and townhouses-No normal person would describe it as a residential neighborhood. The neighborhoods adjacent to Wootton aren’t also adjacent to Harris Teeter etc…[/quote]

And for decades Wootton (including when I attended Wootton in the 90s) had a huge Giant, chinese takeout restaurant, video rental store, medical and dental offices, a hair dresser, a bank (I think at one point it was 2 banks one with a drive through teller, movie rental place, and gift store all across the street.

I really don't understand this argument about retail especially since Wootton used to be right across from a shopping center and the new houses going up on the old shopping center site across from the current Wootton are going to include multiple RETAIL businesses there, too - you are grasping at straws here.  Crown is a mixed use development which is what almost all new developments are - a combination of retail and housing.  And the new development directly across the street from the current Wootton location will be very similar mixed use housing and commercial/retail.[/quote]

Same poster as above - and ALSO many MCPS high schools are close to retail and busy roads - I really don't understand this concern.  Walter Johnson is next door to a huge shopping complex with a 2nd one across the street and Montgomery Mall down the road. The new Woodward is on busy Old Georgetown Road a major thoroughfare just off of 270 and 495, Blair HS sits on the corner of one of the busiest intersections in Montgomery County.  All of those schools (and probably others I don't know as well) are arguably in much busier, more traffic/congested areas, with a larger amount of retail than the lot that Crown sits on.

Plus, part of current Fallsmead boundaries are WALKING DISTANCE to Crown.  No boundary changes needed - but some people are upset that a *different* set of Fallsmead students will be walkers to the new school building???[/quote]

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