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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][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]

[b]Whether that or some other site, it would be the same funds used for other capital improvements.[/b]  Immaterial are the facts that MoCo doesn't pony up enough to cover the need and that the metric for meeting the need is not how much money is spent for an area but how well the system provides public facilities for an area relative to the other areas served.  Some places cost more than others to provide similar service levels.[/quote]

Well, no, it wouldn't. Because MCPS doesn't need to buy property it already owns.[/quote]

Well, sure.  Then a zero cost (other than the admin work involved in the transfer) would come from the same capital improvements budget.  MCPS didn't own the hospital site, though.  Or the Discovery site.  And each had drawbacks.

[b]There were others they might have considered, or considered differently,[/b] but thinking about those may have been limited if the purpose of the study was simply to show how difficult it would be so that focus could shift to Woodward.[/quote]

Such as?[/quote]

Jessup Blair Park was one.[/quote]

Interesting site, with a historical house in the middle of it. That park is 15 acres. In contrast, BCC HS is 16 acres and a really tight fit. [/quote]

You should look at the thoughts they mocked up for  use of the Discovery site.  Just an office building.  No campus.

Even with traditional facilities (ball fields, etc.), you can fit a HS on less if you spend the $ to build up.  Happens in some city environments.

Historical structures can be moved.  The park goes nearly unused, especially by MoCo residents -- it's closer to many in DC.[/quote]

With the DCC school choice kids who don’t do sports don’t need the fields and they could do something special like a music or theater or other speciality programs.  Kids could do sports at other schools. [/quote]

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