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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Wow. Are you saying that whether a neighborhood gets school construction or not depends on the deep pockets and the ratio of lawyers? So...since Lynnbrook community is richer than the RCH community, they will successfully keep the school out? Really? Could the MCPS school system be kept from using property they already own by a bunch of deep pockets?

I am shocked.

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Yes, my guess (and I don't live there, so perhaps it's wrong) is that Lynnbrook's immediate neighbors will do precisely what RCH neighbors have done, which is to fight tooth and nail to ensure that their neighborhood can remain as unscatched by infrastructure and traffic as possible, and they will insist that their "open space" is inviolable as RCH is doing. Everyone wants the development, but they want the impact to fall disproportionately on someone else's sidewalks. I'm more sympathetic to East Bethesda simply because they already deal with speeding school buses by CCES and lots of cross traffic from downtown Bethesda, even if the County has done tons to insulate them (more than it has done for the rest of us.) If I'm wrong, and East Bethesda is less NIMBYistic than RCH, great, and it would confirm my increasingly low opinion of RCH.

What scares me, as someone who lives in one of the parts of this catchment already hit too hard by BRAC and the future PL and the future CC Lake monstrosity, is that MoCo may be too susceptible to the pressures of rich communities. A pox on all your houses, frankly - or better yet a middle school in all your neighborhoods. None of us live in the bucolic exburbs - if that's what you want, move to Frederick or even Gaithersburg. If you want to be close-in and part of a vibrant community on the edge of a city, you're going to have to accept some density. Or, god forbid, a school. [/quote]

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