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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "much bigger buildings" are just mcmansions. That doesn't add population density.[/quote]

Here's the great folly in this new line of argument from the FCCA.

The FCCA says: schools aren't needed because population isn't forecasted to grow quickly in our area. They assert, falsely, that no new buildings are going to go in, seemingly unaware of the Mayor's housing initiative and the housing stock along Macarthur Boulevard.

But this too is a distraction.

Instead, ask yourself what growth has there been in housing in the area in the last fifteen years. (I'll pause. Try to think of new construction in Palisades, Wesley Heights, Foxhall, Spring Valley, Berkeley, Kent.)

There has been almost none. For decades. A few mansions were added to undeveloped plots over the years, but that's it. And, yet, despite this lack of new construction, Mann and Key have gained closed to 300 students. It's almost like there is more than one source of new students.

The FCCA wants to distract you -- because they think you are too stupid to see through it -- that with no new buildings (again, a false assertion) there are no new students. But the past 15 years literally refutes their argument.

Your emperor hath no clothes. His naked, wrinkled rear-end sure ain't pretty to look at, but you need to stop looking away and pretending otherwise. [/quote]

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