Green shows 7 acres of forest at Ewing site. |
Just 20 days later, on November 17, 2014, the Montgomery County Board of Education voted to approve Starr's plan to shut down the Ewing school to make room for 400 buses at that site.
The Board of Education voted on the start of this plan without any details. Who needs the details, right?
The Parents' Coalition thinks the details are important and so this week we have been providing the information that Superintendent Joshua Starr didn't deem important during the 20 days between his announcement and the first BOE vote.
1. The Ewing school site includes an 8.5 acre park that was funded by the City of Rockville and the State of Maryland. That 8.5 acre park will have to go in order to make room for 400 school buses.
Sorry, City of Rockville, that 7 acres of trees is going to have to go to make room for the 400 school buses that will be parking on this property. Bye-bye forest conservation easement.
Superintendent Joshua Starr and Planning Board Chair Casey Anderson are meeting on a regular basis. Starr shouldn't have any problem wiping out that 7 acre Forest Conservation Easement from 1999.
Yes, the easement was set up to last "forever and in perpetuity," but here in Montgomery County we know that "forever and in perpetuity" only means until someone shreds the document over lunch at a Rockville restaurant.
"When the moon shines on seven acres
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Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the Starr?"
It is obvious that mcps cares little about. Established conservation law. Parks or open space
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