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Maintain or slightly increase the current retail square footage but rebuild/renovate the current buildings. Bring in other mixed use (ie, a nursing home again, dogpark, daycare, etc.). Build only more residential that can be supported by current school capacity (when Woodacres is renovated, and also factoring in Pyle and Whitman). The fact is simply there is no where else (and no $) to build more schools in the area - so new development has to be supported by these current schools. That is what I meant by low density.[/quote]

Master plans are supposed to last 20-30 years, so I don't think it would make sense to limit the master plan based on current limitations. There would be places to put schools, if MCPS changed their requirements for school sites. Do elementary, middle, and high schools really have to have 7.5, 15.5, and 35 acres, respectively?  And while there is currently insufficient capital funding for schools, we shouldn't assume that there will always be insufficient capital funding for schools.

Maybe the solution is to add school staging requirements for residential development -- for example, no more than x residential units until MCPS has acquired a school site; no more than y residential units until capital funding for the school is in the five-year plan etc.[/quote]

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