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YES.  [b]So many ways to address these problems ahead of time that would be way more efficient and responsive than this piecemeal, wait-and-see approach they take now,[/b] which is neither cost-effective nor best for the students.  I don't even know why they are sending Crispell to these meetings if all he is going to say is that MCPS will do nada, nothing, zilch to prepare for these new developments that -- news flash -- DO get built.  Just drive around the county and you can see hundreds and thousands of new units going up.  The excuse of "sometimes things don't get built" just rings hollow.[/quote]

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You can build a larger building and then close off the excess capacity, as PP suggested.  In DC, excess DCPS capacity is sometimes used by co-locating charters.  Couldn't badly-needed childcare centers utilize excess space until the school needs more room?  I see old elementary schools being used by nursery schools and daycares all the time.  MCPS could take some of those schools back and have developers foot the cost of renovating them.  In Bethesda, there are no large tracts of land to site a brand-new ES, although there's an old elementary school near Whitman being used as a nursery school, and another elementary school on Sangamore that is being leased by the Waldorf School.  My understanding is that the Waldorf's lease was just extended for another 10 years.  That lease should be on the table.  There is otherwise little excess land in Bethesda for new school sites, but there is no reason why MCPS could not require developers to foot the bill for new/renovated schools or additions once new residential units hit a certain threshold.  But if MCPS doesn't make any of this part of the development plan, the opportunity for cost-sharing is lost.  It's not as if developers don't profit from having good schools nearby, so I don't understand MoCo's reluctance to push developers to do more, and MCPS's relative lack of interest in the entire process.  Would it kill MCPS to do some advance modeling of different scenarios at some point before hundreds of new children have moved into a development, and provide some useful input into the planning process instead of being entirely reactionary?[/quote]

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