This is from our friends at the Brickyard Neighborhood Coalition.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/62989993/Brickyard-Legal-Notice-Flyer#
The property at issue was a formerly dedicated school site. The Board of Education leased the property back to the county, and the county is now planning on developing the property.
Past history with other long term leases of developed school sites has been that once the property is developed, the cost of reclaiming the property is prohibitive. Think Berman High School.
The BOE and the County could have tried some creative uses for this property - but no, we need soccer fields instead of classrooms.
If your child is in a portable or an overcrowded school, think of this property that the Montgomery County School System decided it no longer needed.
And yet, the County Council is letting the Board of Ed remove TWO regulation soccer fields from the down-county area by allowing Rock Creek Hills Park to be taken for the construction of an undersized middle school inferior to Wesland in the B-C CLuster. Don't forget this when it comes time to vote.
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