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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walking/running apps show walking distance better then something like Bing which is more for driving.  The milages I inluded in my post at 15:56 were from an app where you can choose the most obvious and direct walking path and find the shortest.  The .3 and twice as far is for the 36th/Albermarle location.  The rezoning includes only a few blocks but it does matter which you pick to map.  Again, you can say you don't care or "close enough" but you can't say that these locations are not being sent to their third furthest school while further neigbhorhoods are being brought to the school for the first time.[/quote]

The "neighborhood" (two blocks with pretty widely spaced houses) that are being brought to Murch may be further from Murch, but they are also significantly further from Hearst by any reasonable walking or driving route because of the way that the Soapstone tributary runs.

I would argue that the blocks being rezoned to Hearst are an easy walk to Hearst.  I would not say the same thing about the houses that are being zoned to Murch, there's a major hill, it's more than a mile, and you'd need to cross Connecticut without a crossing guard.

The DME's proposal seems to place an emphasis on being within a mile from your neighborhood school.  This is in keeping with the local suburbs.  Montgomery County, Fairfax County, and Arlington County have all set 1 mile as the reasonable distance for an elementary school student to walk (PG is an outlier at 1.5 miles), and  provide buses to elementary school students who live farther.

I think a mile seems reasonable, and that from that perspective the new zoning, which ensures that all kids in the area are a mile or less from a school, seem to make sense.[/quote]

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