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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turning Wootton HS as a holding school is just an option for future projects which won't happen probably at the earliest until Damascus HS is fully renovated/rebuilt. It all depends on the mcps enrollment numbers and money fund. If there is not enough mcps enrollment and no money,  they may not need a holding school or push the idea of turning Wootton HS as a holding school more later like a decade or two later. It is just my thoughts. We don't  need a holding school or permanent Crown HS when  mcps is currently underenrolled. [/quote]

Yeah definitely better to have a huge abandoned building right on Wootton pkwy for the foreseeable future. Also if you have ever talked to anyone in construction-the longer a building sits empty like that, its condition just gets considerably worse. [/quote]

You must be new around here.  The Wootton building won't be abandoned.  MCPS will sell the land to a developer for cheap to build new housing that will then feed into Crown.  Maybe even a townhouse development that will vastly increase traffic on Wootton Parkway.

[b]Keeping Wootton where it is controls traffic speeds and increases safety along Wootton Parkway.[/b][/quote]

:lol: You will make up anything to keep your school where it is, won't you?

A townhouse development would not add more traffic than your existing school.  But if it did, how is that different than development in any other part of county?[/quote]

What are you talking about?  It's a narrow, 2-lane road surrounded by exercise trails and residential neighborhoods.  A massive new residential development is guaranteed to increase traffic, just like building a brand new school in an already traffic congested area.  Oh wait, MCPS already did that - and you want to make traffic around Crown even worse?

You're so desperate to stick it to Wootton and feel that you're this >< close to achieving your lifelong dream with Option H.

Just admit that you don't live in Wootton and don't care about Wootton families.[/quote]

You want a new school and are offered one.  Stop complaining.  Many schools are worse off.[/quote]

Wootton families don't want a new school 3 miles away.  How many times has that been said and countless other threads?  You're so desperate to sell Wootton families a new school building they never asked for and don't want.  Sounds like you have something significant to gain from a Wootton move.  Why don't you tell us all what that is?[/quote]

Then deal with what you have like the rest of us do.  [b]What would you suggest cutting to build you a new school?[/b][/quote]

Tell me where I asked for for MCPS to build a brand new school and cut in front of other schools.   I'll wait....

Oh wait, you can't.  The ask of Wootton families is clear.  Don't move Wootton to Crown.  Remediate the pressing issues at Wootton and they will wait their turn - [b]for the third time[/b] - until 2035. Wootton families will deal with what we have to "like the rest of us."

As a PP indicated, the quoted amount on the CIP sheet for Wootton is likely for a full renovation, not remediation.  If MCPS can find the money to move Wootton to Crown (there are costs involved in a move), and then remediate Wootton to make it a holding school (whether immediately or in 2027 when Crown opens), then it can remediate Wootton now and let it stay where it is.

Why are you pushing for a move so badly?  What's in it for you?  Come on, you can tell us....

Just because MCPS built a school that will now allegedly be under enrolled (which I doubt) doesn't mean it should compound its mistake by destroying Wootton as it is today.[/quote]
MCPS would have to find the funds to do both:  finish building Crown and renovate Wootton. And no, they cannot stop building Crown. They would lose the land, and that would be a waste of the millions they already spent on the construction to date.

What's in it for taxpayers?  Not wasting more money, especially  money the county doesn't have.  Have you not heard? MoCo revenue will be short by hundreds of millions.

All of these CIPs were planned when MoCo anticipated positive revenue growth.  Things have drastically changed, in case you haven't noticed.  More than likely, they will want to increase taxes to fill the gaps.  I'm sick of paying more in taxes for less services.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2025/12/montgomery-county-projects-854-million-less-in-revenues-over-6-years/[/quote]

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