"Staff recommends that the Planning Board not accept MCPS’s site selection advisory committee’s recommendation to construct the new BCC Middle School #2 on the site of either the current Rock Creek Hills Local Park or North Chevy Chase Local Park. Instead, staff recommends that MCPS take a harder look at the viability of three other options. These three options include:
- Purchase of a private site
- The former Montgomery Hills Junior High School Site
- The former Lynnbrook Elementary School site and the adjacent Lynnbrook Local Park
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Planning Board Staff Recommend Rejection of Site Selection Advisory Committee Recommendations
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Why would MCPS staff or process look out for anyone other than MCPS's interests?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda/2012/agenda20120409e.html
If you read through the "Correspondence" tab, you can read statements from those that took enough time to actually review the site constraints, physical and legal, and to evaluate the costs associated with this "gently sloping" site...
Lose of Park land aside, MCPS just didn't do their homework. Once "everyone" is committed to the plan, a cost overrun is just another unexpected line item in the budget to be borne by the taxpayer...
According to the Wash Post article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/12/AR2006081200985.html the Montgomery Hills tenant came out very well the last time MCPS broke a lease with them: "Yeshiva's compensation was a $9.9 million"
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting that (according to the article) Jerry Pasternak negotiated both leases. I assume this is the same Jerry Pasternak that is helped Montgomery Soccer get the Brickyard land.
- Melanie
Correct.
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