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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.[/quote]

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. [b]Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan,[/b] but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't. [/quote]

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?[/quote]

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years. [/quote]
The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students. [/quote]

Which is why DCPS is planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to renovate and expand the building.

I don't get the "land is constrained" bit. It has an enormous parking lot, most of the site is parking. As a public school it won't need nearly as much. [/quote]
And how do the teachers and support staff get to work?

Why would you think a public school needs less parking that a private school with the same staffing?[/quote]

DCPS has said in the public meetings that the school has "too much parking." Their words, not mine. They've also said they're looking at a combination of building up and building out.

Private schools operating in residential neighborhoods are highly constrained by zoning. Public schools are a matter-of-right use and have no such constraints. [/quote]
Aha. You’re a “zoning” person. Good to know. Carry on. [/quote]

DCPS said the same thing about another Ward 3 school which was recently renovated without parking (despite DC having built parking at Murch, Ellington, Janey).  So the school has had to beg and borrow temporary street parking passes for staff, which doesn’t work very well. High schools are more vehicle intensive than elementary schools.[/quote]

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