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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't matter. As states before the southern Murch boundary is likely to slide farther north once again. [/quote]

It will not. They got massive pushback in the first round. Cheh and Catania both visited and said the round 1 boundary for Murch vs. Hearst was absurd. [/quote]

I think the PP is making the point that while there was tremendous pushback this time, the proposal has the boundary coming under review again shortly.  With the school bursting at the seams and the renovation likely to only house the current expected students in the pipeline, if that, any further expansion of the IB population will force the Hearst-Murch boundary north again.[/quote]

Correct, there will be another review. But the boundary won't move north of Albemarle again (that zones out the people closet to the school, turns walkers into drivers, and as such would be a personal embarrassment for DDOT people like Sam Zimbabwe and whoever follows who want to make their career on limiting car use in a clogged city). More likely is they will move the new Lafayette/Murch boundary south and send the new complex on Military to Lafayette. "Walkability" is in the new proposal for a reason.[/quote]

Honestly, I think that is doubtful.  The Murch to Lafayette is based on the projection that Lafayette's numbers will decline.  That might happen in which case the proposed switch will be fine and Lafayette will not get even more overcrowded.  But I suspect that they'd want to wait to see more evidence that Lafayette's number will in fact decline.  Besides, Hearst is a perfectly good school with a lot of scope to take additional IB families and is close by to the area just north of Ablemarle.  Sure a lot of that area is also close to Murch, but that won't be a hurdle if Murch is 800+ kids and someone just absolutely has to go.[/quote]

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