MCPS Removing Trees from Neighborhoods #deforestation #bccmiddleschool #kensington

When MCPS moves in, out go trees.

At the August 20, 2015, Board of Education meeting, the BOE will vote to rip acres of trees from the Kensington Park where they will build a new middle school. 

The Montgomery County Planning Board is going to allow the BOE to pay for a temporary tree reserve in another part of the County to make up for the loss of trees to the Kensington neighborhood. 

Let's do the math.  MCPS will cut down existing trees. No new trees will be planted to replace the trees cut down. MCPS will pay to "preserve" existing trees elsewhere for a couple of years.  The Montgomery County Code requires a minimum of just 2 years. 

This is a net loss of trees for Montgomery County as a whole, and a huge loss for the Kensington neighborhood where the new school will be built. 

But, if you have had a MCPS construction project in your neighborhood, you already know that MCPS rips out trees as part of their "modernization" process.  The BOE builds "green" schools.  Just don't assume that "green" schools has anything to do with leaving existing trees in neighborhoods!

   B-CC MS 2 Forest Conserve Agrees by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland