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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]No boundary changes needed - but some people are upset that a *different* set of Fallsmead students will be walkers to the new school building???[/b][/quote]

Of course they are. They feel entitled to be walkers based on their home purchase. It is natural for them to be upset but MCPS can't make decisions based on their comfort.[/quote]

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