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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]without knowing anything about this - did GEICO submit a plan ages ago when office space was in demand and now they're trying to update the plan to reflect a post-COVID world where we need more apartments and fewer office buildings?

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They want to build 500 units without any traffic studies, school inftastructure, stormwater planning...[/quote]

Anything is better than the depressing eyesore that is currently there. Montgomery County is losing out big time to DC and NoVa in terms of private investment. They don’t have a lot of room to be picky because they are in such a desperate financial situation. [/quote]

Are you a real estate developer or just careless?  No it is not a good idea to add 500 units of housing (ex: 2000 people) to a location without understanding where the kids will go to school and where people will park and where water will drain.  [/quote]

Well...OK...but you sound like someone who never wants any housing there at all, even if they do figure out where the kids will go to school and where they will park (BTW, that's an easy thing to figure out) and where the water will drain.[/quote]

How is it an easy thing to figure out? Westbrook ES is overcapacity.  Bethesda ES is overcapacity. Perhaps it only seems easy for those who don't have kids or don't know remember what it's like when your child is in an overcrowded school where resources are scarce.[/quote]
+1  Amen. --Parent whose elementary school kid is in a class with 32 other kids, well above the MCPS guidelines for class size, in their overcrowded BCC feeder elementary school.[/quote]
So?
How is that different from other mcps schools?
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The guidelines for elementary school class size is 28 or 29 kids in low-FARMs schools and 21 or 22 kids in high FARMS (low-income) schools so 32 is in fact, more than most other MCPS schools.  Schools that are severely overcapacity can't hire additional teachers to create a new class, because there isn't space for that new class to have a room.  Some of the BCC feeder elementary schools were asked to take overflow kids from the most severely overcapacity elementary schools, which made those classes exceed the classroom size guidelines, because it was too late to hire a teacher to those classes that became overcrowded at the last minute. I know this because my kid is in one of those classes, and it's so crowded in there that you can barely walk--there are so many desks crammed in.

So let's not ignore the fact that additional developments creates additional students for public school. Real estate developers can fill out their housing impact form and say their apartment building creates only 1 new student for the local elementary school, and no one will tell them they're wrong, but it's so challenging for the schools that have to absorb these kids.[/quote]

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