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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county council has approved construction of a huge new apartment complex in our neighborhood, but our local ES is already over capacity with no new updates/improvements on the horizon. Do the council and MCPS talk to each other about this sort of thing? How do they approve these types of projects without having a plan on where the kids can go (besides adding portables which is not a solution). There doesn’t seem to be any thought as to the long term impacts to our schools……[/quote]

OP, the county council does not approve construction, that's not how it works.

What is your neighborhood? Which is your local ES?[/quote]

OP here- they may not “approve” it but they are all for it and even have a goal of adding 40k new housing units across the county. My question is how are these decisions made and [b]how can we as a community protect our schools from being more crowded than they already are?[/b] We already have several portables and this will only add significantly more….[/quote]

You build more schools.

With population growth, there's always the need for more housing. Next you build more schools. Don't view it as "protecting schools," which sounds like staking a claim to a public good to me.[/quote]

That would be ideal, but MCPS doesn't just build more schools.   They have a whole bunch of studies, and then nothing. Or they put portables. Or modules. Or nothing. Just take a look at Ashburton Elementary School for example[/quote]

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