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I agree with the other PP that wants more density at Metro stations.  [b]Why people can't see that's a good thing is beyond me.[/b][/quote]

It's beyond your understanding that parents don't want to make over crowding situation worse?

No one is opposing higher density at metro station. Citizens are opposing higher density in RM cluster when school is already over crowded. City should work with MCPS to find a solution to that first and then make RM cluster more dense.

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Any new building planned this year will take 7-10 years to build, that's well after Crown HS is complete but you want to stop the entire process, including permitting, of a project that won't be complete for a decade because of school capacity in 5 years from now.  Also, most of Twinbrook's building will generate kids for WJ and not RM and of the ones that go to RM, they're all at the very end of the build-out - 20 YEAR FROM NOW but you want to kill that project to revitalized a rundown area because RM will be overcapcacity in 5 years.  [b]In 20 years, Crown will have been long built and rezoning will have been completed.[/b]  They don't just buy a plot of land in the town center and build the next day.[/quote]

If it's after 20 years then projection should show that kids are coming after 20 years. It's as simple as that. In reality, projections are showing that RM will be 120% within 5 years.

According to you solution to all such problems are simply forget about any limit and keep issuing permit to build, right?

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Another person that didn't watch the video of the council meeting.  RM will be overcapacity in 5 years.  This is unrelated to the Twinbrook building that will take place.  That building will take place over two decades but the entire project will be stopped because of RM even though the vast majority of that area is going to be assigned to WJ. [b] The 120% capacity limit has absolutely nothing to do with the plan to build out at Twinbrook and that buildout is not what brings us to 120%.[/b]  The only thing the 120% does is stop the building at Twinbrook even though nearly every kid will attend WJ and the buildings that will be assigned to RM won't be built until towards the end of the project.  WATCH THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.[/quote]

Then why increase 120% limit which will make RM situation worse. By increasing the limit, we are simply saying that anyone can build and add students in RM cluster.

If TB project is not going to add students for decades then projections should show that and City should approve those projects.[/quote]

Watch the meeting video and go to the section where the developer talks that I posted above.  It's going to add only 23 elementary, 9 middle and 13 high school kids to RM over the next 15-20 years but this capacity limit is going to stop the revitalization of an area that is in desperate need of it.  [/quote]

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