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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here, how does the River School relocation to the "single family lot" aka a MANSION measurably impact Janney, Hearst or Wilson one bit? More cars? Its one of the NW quadrant of the city's main thoroughfares. There are constantly new buildings being put up, shopping centers (Mazza) vacated, etc. Development happens, we live in a city.

There are plenty of actual educational issues in the city, but a school for children with speech and language issues relocating to a larger more appropriate, central location ain't one of them.[/quote]

New to this conversation here but it seems like you are interested if you keep coming back?  I get it. There is A LOT going on with schools in all the neighborhoods for families and it this topic doesn't make it any easier.  It may not get "you riled up" but you should know what the actual issues are before you shut it down; and other surrounding families similar to yours may feel differently. You feel because the lot is "mansion" size that it is okay for the River School to try and flip the historical/residential lot to commerical? What does that say about the "mansion" size lots in Spring Valley? Palisades? Kalorama? 16th Street? Anywhere in the city. Are they to be constantly worried someone can turn over their lot too? If you pay to play its fair game? If it was such a great idea what didn't DCPS think of it? Pushing people out of residential areas smells stinky to me.

Safety sounds like it isn't important to you. Maybe it will be more important when your kiddo gets older and is walking the neighborhood streets with friends and skateboarding, like mine, and being goofy kids not paying attention to speeding cars cutting through side streets.

The main road is very busy, yes, you are definitely correct! To add more cars and more congestion/traffic without a place to put the cars and no direction or feedback from the commercial entity trying to do it is not okay.

The school "ain't" focused on speech and language issues.  Please read what the school actually does and their statistics, well if you can find any. There is a small percentage of students with hearing loss. It is not a specialty school and it does not market itself as one.  Well, it only does when it wants to appear like they are out doing more good than they are really doing. This does add to the educational issues in
the city, especially now with COVID and the discrepancy between how much schooling the children are getting.

All the locations you mentioned are already commercially zoned so not relevant to the conversation. Development does happen and should continue to happen. Growth is needed for sure in the area and matters. Where and How it happens matters too.

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