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Exactly. That is why the new Bethesda Middle School will pretty much be in Kensington. There simply wasnt the space elsewhere in Bethesda. And concern for school overcrowding isn't stopping the apartments from being built in downtown Bethesda. The ratio MCPS uses for predicting families from apartments is flawed. Just wait 5-15 years from now. It will not be pretty at the Elementary and High School levels. Westbard does need re-development - but they need to be smarter about it! [/quote]

What would smarter redevelopment be at Westbard?[/quote]

Renovation and low density development (it is not close enough to mass transit except buses on already crowded River Rd). High density development there is going to add to these major problems.[/quote]

The problem is that low density is not economical for the developers. I wish they could just redevelop the shopping center and be done with it but I gather the economic return on that is not there. The answer is somewhere in between low and high density, which seems to be sort of where the planners have ended up. And all that planning still assumes that someone will actually want to invest in the area based on the master plan. Supposedly Equity One still does but there are plenty of other parts of the master plan that Equity One doesn't own.[/quote]

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