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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK folks-- it is simply dumb -- stupid--idiotic-- to rezone people who are 2 blocks away from one school to another school that is a mile away. That's all all tree is to it. Some of us don't even have a car, and yes, it will be impossible to walk the 12 blocks to Hearst. And what about the old grandmother who can currently easily walk the 2 blocks to pick up her grandchild, but won't be able to do the same with the rezone? For many people the rezone will severely affect their lifestyle.[/quote]

In case you  have not been paying attention, no children currently enrolled in any school will be moved from his/her current school.  So this walking grandmother can still walk to pick up her grandchild.

There is a bigger picture here and the fact that people keep harping on walkability as if it is the MOST IMPORTANT feature of a neighborhood school or the MOST IMPORTANT issue on the table is getting old.  Some homes are going to have to be moved to different boundaries, because of how the schools are clustered it is going to be somebody close to the schools that likely can walk. No current child is going to be moved and it is likely that siblings of current students will be grandfathered as well.  If any of that does not happen you have my extreme support to right such a wrong.

I am, as are others, much more concerned about students that have been proposed to be rezoned to failing schools such as moving Oyster-Adams out of the Wilson feeder path.

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Don't have a dog in this fight, but it makes sense to support walkable density in the Murch example and also care about Oyster-Adams and EOTP. Walkability may not make sense in the latter 2 examples but it does makes sense in the first one.[/quote]

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