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?  What is the topic of this thread... it's about school overcrowding, so yes, over development makes schools even more crowded.  You really need a study to show this?[/quote]

The topic of this thread is a proposed study of the possibility of doing a district-wide boundary study.
Also, nobody is in favor of [b]over[/b]development. But your "overdevelopment" might be my just plain "development", or even "underdevelopment".[/quote]
In regards to the topic of the thread about over crowding and a study to determine if a boundary study is needed to address over crowding, yes any new development that doesn't address crowding issues in a cluster that is already over crowded is "over development". It's certainly not under development.

If we were not talking about school crowding and only discussing how many MPDUs or retail space there is near the metro, then sure, maybe there is under development, but in regards to the topic at hand, yes [b]any new development is over development.[/b]

Please try to keep the context in mind and try not to be so pedantic.[/quote]

No. Unless you're also willing to ban sales or leases of existing residences to people who have or may soon have children in MCPS.

What's more, the proposed consultant study is not only about school capacity, but also about school segregation.

[i]Student board member Ananya Tadikonda, a senior at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, proposed the boundary assessment study in response to an increase in enrollment and student diversity that she believes challenges the school district’s ability to provide equitable facilities throughout the county.

Tadikonda suggests hiring an independent consultant to study whether boundaries of neighboring school clusters countywide could be altered to even the distribution of students among schools. The consultant would be tasked with providing a report by June 4.[/i]

In general, in my experience, people talking about "overdevelopment" generally aren't concerned about school enrollment, they're concerned about their neighborhood changing as a result of lots of new big apartment buildilngs and attached houses getting built. People in detached houses are worried about attached houses and apartment buildings, people in attached houses are worried about apartment buildings.

Also, if you're worried about school [i]capacity[/i], the proportion of MPDUs vs. market-rate units is irrelevant.[/quote]

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