Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I imagine they want a location that will attract a certain type of family.

Families of children that are deaf or have hearing loss and now can reach the school via metro?

What percentage of the students are hearing impaired?

Only 10-15% of the students are hearing impaired.

Anonymous wrote:This looks like a great (and ambitious) plan. Good for the River School. I live not far from there and think this will be a good thing. The NW can continue to be a magnet for great education which is good for our property values (we also bought near schools once we knew where our kids were attending).

I’m also a proponent of the Super Fresh development and am ticked the Palisades neighbors blocked the Safeway redevelopment (so now it’s going to become a retirement home with no sizeable grocery stores), so I’m not a “NIMBY.”

Are you a property owner in the neighborhoods affected by these proposals?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I imagine they want a location that will attract a certain type of family.

Families of children that are deaf or have hearing loss and now can reach the school via metro?

Riiight.

Class sizes at River are generally up to 14 kids. No more than 3 children with hearing impairments are in any class. That would be a max of less than 25%, and there are many classes that have fewer than that.

The school has historically essentially been mostly a local Palisades preschool, but enrollment has been going up significantly in recent years with families from more locations, with more retention into the K-3 years. I expect a move and expansion through higher grades will make it less of a neighborhood school and therefore the Palisades proximity will matter less.

Given that many River parents seem to want their kids to go on to GDS, Maret, and Sidwell (roughly in that order), being in the vicinity of those schools makes sense.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I imagine they want a location that will attract a certain type of family.

Families of children that are deaf or have hearing loss and now can reach the school via metro?

What percentage of the students are hearing impaired?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What building do they plan to use?

If it's an existing non-residential space, I don't see how the neighbor can complain. If you live in a city, you're going to interact with other people.

I wonder what will move into their current space.

The existing space is residential. The school is trying to get it flipped to commercial. Amazing school and mission! Think about it...if one school or business can come in and flip a lot from residential to commercial, what does that say about future residential lots???

you realize every school, and many businesses do this, right?

you realize that is the problem with over development in major cities in residential areas and therefore displacement of many of its citizens, which can tend to be city lead. luckily this issue is happening in an affluent area and not in one where it will push people out even further from their homes. this is why many people cannot even afford to live in the neighborhoods where they grew up! gentrification anyone?

This looks like a great (and ambitious) plan. Good for the River School. I live not far from there and think this will be a good thing. The NW can continue to be a magnet for great education which is good for our property values (we also bought near schools once we knew where our kids were attending).

I’m also a proponent of the Super Fresh development and am ticked the Palisades neighbors blocked the Safeway redevelopment (so now it’s going to become a retirement home with no sizeable grocery stores), so I’m not a “NIMBY.”

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Anonymous wrote:The want to expand the school to 350 kids (expanding to add through sixth grade), day care center and health clinic open to the public. The issue in the neighborhood is not the mission of the school it is that there are already 12+ schools, the department of homeland security and the new buildings at the old Fannie Mae site that are already causing huge amounts of traffic in an area that already has dangerous traffic. They are under contract to purchase TTR old Buchanan estate which is on the corner of Nebraska, 42nd and Van Ness. With 350 kids, 90 faculty, many more staff, patients to the clinic, families of the infants and staff at the health clinic that will add more than 500 cars to the residential part of tenleytown.

Thanks for the NIMBY fear-mongering.

It would be a great addition to the neighborhood, more families would have more walkable and bikable options for their kids.

You realized this is a PRIVATE school. NIMBY, Nah.

I agree that we need options for our LOCAL kids so our LOCAL FAMILIES have more "walkable and bikable options for their kids". Not folks from out of DC coming in with their monster SUVs dropping off and leaving the neighborhood.

Anonymous wrote:For anyone who is interested in River's actual plans rather than the fearmongering, here they are: https://anc3e.org/wp-content/uploads/River-School-Presentation-to-ANC3E-0210.pdf

Traffic is all off Nebraska with a large U-shaped drop-off entirely self-contained on their property, just like NPS across the street. The "health clinic" is the same as the one on their current campus and is a very small pediatric hearing clinic -- not exactly a heavy driver of traffic!

Not sure about your "fearmongering" but it seems the plan posted earlier by someone else to that BZA is a little different. https://app.dcoz.dc.gov/CaseReport/CaseReportPage.aspx?case_id=20472
How can you contain all those cars in the u shaped formation you say they are going to have? 42 spaces with 12 of them tandem does not seem to be enough at all. No doubt they are going to have some big SUVs!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:39th and windom not 49th

That parcel is half the size.

This is really a non-issue. Every time NIMBYs claim traffic and parking woes, it never comes to pass.

Really?! NIMBY. Next.

Anonymous wrote:I imagine they want a location that will attract a certain type of family.

Families of children that are deaf or have hearing loss and now can reach the school via metro?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone who is interested in River's actual plans rather than the fearmongering, here they are: https://anc3e.org/wp-content/uploads/River-School-Presentation-to-ANC3E-0210.pdf

Traffic is all off Nebraska with a large U-shaped drop-off entirely self-contained on their property, just like NPS across the street. The "health clinic" is the same as the one on their current campus and is a very small pediatric hearing clinic -- not exactly a heavy driver of traffic!

I mean, you said it yourself.

The NPS/NPC campus is far bigger than this River campus. Yikes to adding another school to that area.

River wants a location convenient to the type of people they want to attract. Lots of better spaces available but they aren’t in the right part of town.

People in AU Park choose private school too. Especially the way DCPS has handled the pandemic. There will be learning loss affecting kids for years.

Anonymous wrote:For anyone who is interested in River's actual plans rather than the fearmongering, here they are: https://anc3e.org/wp-content/uploads/River-School-Presentation-to-ANC3E-0210.pdf

Traffic is all off Nebraska with a large U-shaped drop-off entirely self-contained on their property, just like NPS across the street. The "health clinic" is the same as the one on their current campus and is a very small pediatric hearing clinic -- not exactly a heavy driver of traffic!

I mean, you said it yourself.