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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Science City is the planned development around Belward Farm. The official name is the Great Seneca Science Corridor.

There aren't going to be 6,000 residential units at Science City any time soon. MCPS has capacity needs that are far more immediate and urgent.[/quote]

But the question is, how are they preparing for it IN ADVANCE?  By their history, my guess is nothing.  Once schools hit 6+ portables they will look to "study" for an addition.  [/quote]

What do you think that MCPS should be doing, to prepare for a residential development that may happen at some time in the future but will not happen any time soon?[/quote]

If you know that existing area schools are already overcrowded, it is irresponsible to sit by and do nothing when developers are planning to build thousands of new units and not consider either building a new school to receive the new residents, or to start planning for additions to existing schools.  All of that takes a lot of time, and to put off any planning until the overcrowding is a overwhelming reality is incredibly shortsighted.  How many "studies" are launched only to find that funding isn't there, or the planning and building itself takes so many years that kids literally age out of the school before relief comes?  Maybe to planners and developers, 5-6 years is nothing, but that is an eternity for a kid.[/quote]

+1000.  The developers should be responsible for the school buildings if they want to build 6000 new homes.  It is done almost everywhere else in the country but for some reason MC has this strange desire to let the developers/contractors hold all the cards.  If they have the money to build this and make a huge profit, part of those profits need to go building schools.

Look at Rachel Carson.  They actually built a school for the development and it is 70% over-capacity.  What about Fallsgrove, King Farm, Rockville Town Center, Crown, all the new high rise condo buildings in Bethesda and the future Science City.  NO schools built for them.  None.  Zero.  The schools built for Clarksburg weren't enough.  Brand new schools overcrowded and spending MORE money getting feasibility studies, additions, new schools etc...  Tons of portables already up there.  Poor planning - tons of money wasting away to now improve the poor projections.

I have no idea how they do not built an unfinished 3rd floor in EVERY new school they built.  Just another thing MANY other locations do with their schools.  It is 10X cheaper to do this and close it off for future use than it is to build a school based on probable projections, find out it is overcrowded, do feasibility studies, look for funding, do the planning, bid the job, hire the people, possibly put the kids in holding schools to finish the job etc...

I mean Richard Montgomery High School was JUST rebuilt from the ground up a few years ago and they are now looking at starting a feasibility study for an addition.  College Gardens, brand new a few years ago has portables all over the blacktops.  Building unfinished areas of schools ahead of time makes much more sense.  [/quote]

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