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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher parking is required by the union contract.  The Murch site is not big enough to provide it without going underground.  Going underground is expensive -- hence the latest DGS/DCPS effort not to do so at the expense of all of the facilities planned to go underground.  Please lets keep focused on how the larger community can help current and [i]future[/i] Murch families ensure that the renovation is one that includes common sense elements:  a cafeteria, a gym that can actually accommodate the whole school, a modern library and a playground where 7 grades can play and exercise safely.  Doesn't seem like a lot to ask -- and yet....  We could certainly use the support of any DC resident that is similarly seeking renovation or has completed or is nearing completion of the process.[/quote]

The parking is a zoning requirement and the design provides the barest minimum parking required by zoning. The teacher's contract has nothing to do with it.[/quote]

You both are right. But notice that DCPS did not say they are getting rid of the parking. DCPS doesn't care about the teacher contract but they don't want to hassle with a zoning variance, which calls for 45-55 spaces for a building this size. They are simply not putting it as far underground as the feasibility study concluded was the only way to fit a school with this large of an enrollment on such a small site. Remember, the city can't build on one third of the Murch site because it is National Park Service land, part of Fort Reno. The only thing that can go on that large swath of the property is play space. The addition will go where the current soccer field & basketball courts & trailers are. The parking is supposed to go under the addition.[/quote]

It does seem kinda nuts that DCPS has let Murch get as large as it has.  They should drastically throttle back any OOB enrollment as those student graduate and then shift more of the local school population to Hardy.  This would have the effect of flipping Hardy overnight to a majority IB/neighborhood school, which the community would welcome.  A win-win.[/quote]

10% at-risk set aside is going to affect both Murch and Hearst. You will probably be wishing you had the former OOB families back soon enough. [/quote]

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