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Because one of the goals of the new middle school was to cut down on the distances traveled by the students. We are not at Westland yet but I live right near NCC and my dad lives next to Westland. It takes FOREVER to get there and back on a weekday afternoon. Keep in mind that expanding Westland was on the list of options that could relieve the overcrowding there and the county chose to open a new school instead. Because the traffic makes getting from one corner of the cluster to the other very difficult. This is not as much of a problem with B-CC since it is right in the middle of the cluster.[/quote]

Where did you get this from? This site was selected TWICE by site selection committees. It's an odd site to pick (twice), if your goal was to cut down on travel distance.[/quote]

Not sure what you are talking about. It is definitely not an odd site to pick if your goal was to cut down on travel distance for the kids in the north and east corners of the cluster who have to get to the extreme southwest corner of the cluster. [/quote]

The site selection criteria were:

Location (central location preferred)
Size (20 acres preferred)'
Topography (flat preferred)
Access (primary roadway with 70-foot right-of-way preferred)
Utilities (access to public utilities preferred)
Physical condition (no noisy, distracting, or hazardous adjacent uses preferred)
Availability and timing (necessity for eminent domain NOT preferred)
Cost

For Rock Creek Hills Local Park, the location was both good (far from Westland) and bad (not centrally located).

http://www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda/2012/documents/Reportof200120315_SSACforBCCMS2FINALMarch122012_000.pdf[/quote]

Thank you for the info/link! It's technically true that a central location was preferred but since the center of the cluster is frigging downtown Bethesda, there were no sites that really fit that preference. The three sites that were most seriously considered were all toward the north and east - Rock Creek Hills Local Park which was selected both times; Rosemary Hills Local Park which was the first choice of the first site selection committee and quickly thrown out since it is such a necessary/high use park for so many apartments/condos nearby in an area with very little green space; and North Chevy Chase Park off of Jones Bridge which IIRC came in second to Rock Creek Hills both times.[/quote]

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