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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren't there other capital projects that have been delayed for over a decade? Is the auditorium more important?[/quote]

Do you have HS students?  Ones who perform in school plays or musicals?  Ones who play an instrument in the band or orchestra? Ones who sing in a chorus? Do you participate in grade-level meetings for parents?  All of these and more take place in the auditorium that every other HS in the county has.  This is about access and equity, and yes, it's more important than other capital projects, because you don't build 97% of a new HS, you build 100%[/quote]

Woodward, rebuilt ahead of  multiple other capital projects that were on the list for rebuilding first. Take your 97% of a school and be grateful. [/quote]
The perennial MCPS Capital projects problem: Overcrowded schools get funded before schools that aren't overcrowded.[/quote]

The DCC schools were overcrowded before WJ. It's just that westside parents have more influence so you went to the front of the line.[/quote]

Please stop all this east side/west side stuff. Interested parties from all clusters should be coming together to advocate for this funding to be restored.[/quote]

Not that PP.

Great.  Now let's see all clusters, especially W's, from where, presumably, the necessary tax revenue would disproportionately come on a per-household basis, advocate for that [b]very much needed, inside-the-beltway/east of Rock Creek high school [/b]that was strawmanned down to clear the way for capital to be spent on the Woodward reopening.[/quote]

Which high school is that?[/quote]

The one that they knew was needed, but, because of a lack of consideration, planning for which was abandoned with justification from poor mock-ups and land acquisition cost estimates to pave the way for alternate use of the capital for Wooodward.[/quote]

Are you talking about the hospital site in Takoma Park? I think it would be a great site for a new HS.[/quote]

Which money would MCPS buy it with?[/quote]

I know! All the money should go to Bethesda because they pay the most taxes.[/quote]

Nobody said that. Which money would MCPS buy the former Adventist hospital site in Takoma Park with?[/quote]

The City of Takoma Park is dumping money into up-zoning for the Washington Adventist Hospital site. They are planning a luxury high-rise, with more to follow down Maple Ave, per the dreams of the city council. The city just received approval from the county council for a minor master plan to make this happen. Who knows where the additional children will go to school. We have no space left in the nearby elementary schools. [/quote]

Is it really UPzoning to turn a former hospital site into housing?

"Luxury" apartments just means "new" apartments.[/quote]

First, someone has to spend a few million to tear down the hospital. The city plans to have a very expensive high rise go up; they want tax dollars. Of course, if you are willing to pay $750K to $1 million for a condo, you might not want to look out your window at the 1974 medical building that the Adventist community is holding on to.  In addition to the hospital site, the city's minor-master plan includes the whole of Washington Adventist University, which is financially unstable. Given the spectacular fail of the city's multi-million dollar effort to turn a parking lot into an office building at Takoma Junction, with the end result being a parking lot, what could go wrong with the latest plan by the city to sweep in on the Adventist properties?[/quote]

So don't bid on the development. And the PP who is worried about school capacity can stop worrying. Good news all around.[/quote]

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