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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can call the plans ambitious, but face reality, the school is wedging many more kids on to a campus, that as compared to any of its peers, will be sub-standard. Add to that the financing mechanism that is wholly dependent on its Board member-developers and the whole thing is fishy.

As to the local neighbors, they rightfully pushed back against the 50's style grocery/parking lot and were on a track with Safeway that everyone seemed to be happy with, until Safeway sold the lot.

The GDS proposal is worse for the neighbors because they are getting all of the negatives without any benefits.[/quote]

Not to mention that this neighborhood already has the largest public high school(1600+), middle school (1300+) and two of the largest elementary schools (almost 700 each) in the city just blocks away -- with all of these students arriving and leaving at the same time. And Murch is about to go from a 400 student building to a 700 student building just across Ft. Reno Park from GDS.

No one in the city government ever seems to look at the big picture.[/quote]

Not to mention the new AU law school at Tenley Circle and that Tenley is the transit hub for the rest of the university.  [/quote]

I think one thing getting lost here is that the new GDS plan, which adds multiple entrances to the school (from River, 42nd street, possibly Fessenden) and larger driveways and drop off spaces will greatly limit the impact from the additional students.  for several lower school families I know, metro WITH A PARENT will now be an option.  For other families with kids already in high school, there will be no additional impact on traffic.  And carpools will reach new efficiency as high schoolers will be able to drive middle schooler siblings with them, meaning fewer cars on the road.  At the end of the day, there are a few neighbors who live right by GDS who will absolutely be affected by this development, but those neighbors live next to a big, commercial property that was falling apart and one way or another was going to get redeveloped.  The GDS lower/middle school students stay pretty contained on campus while they are at school, have relatively few night time events, etc. and I think this is actually a much less invasive use of the space than pretty much any other proposal would be. [/quote]

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