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Preserve the community-friendly design of Dumbarton Middle School

Preserve the community-friendly design of Dumbarton Middle School

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Started by Stuart Sirota 12 years, 5 months ago
The proposed alterations to the parking and traffic patterns as part of the renovation plans to Dumbarton Middle School will have serious negative impacts to our community including loss of open space and mature trees, negative visual impacts, increased traffic and noise in what is currently a park-like setting and historic landscape, negative impacts to the health and safety of children and other residents who seek to enjoy this irreplaceable community resource and historic landscape. While we fully support the renovations to the school building itself, we urge Baltimore County Public Schools to modify the plans such that the renovations to the building can proceed without altering the parking and traffic circulation, which we believe to be both avoidable and unnecessary.

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Reached 500 supporters

July 3, 2014

Reached 100 supporters

March 1, 2014

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Patreena Parsons
12 years ago Featured

This is a walking community and I don't think this plan respects our needs. Our primary concern over the years has been the lack of air conditioning. This plan delays that implementation another 2 years and addresses a bus drop off system that is not a problem.

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Mark Hauswald
12 years ago Featured

A retaining wall. That will attract the graffiti artists. With the new clean water act any additional blacktop is taxed. I guess we the taxpayers will get this unneeded annual environmental fee. I would hate to see that rare old live oak tree on Dumbarton Rd taken down after all the major storms it has survived.

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Virginia Golden
12 years ago Featured

Our lovely old trees and the large fields at the schools are a part of what makes Rodgers Forge so wonderful and livable. Please, BCPS, I do not understand why we need to change what wasn't broken to begin with. Upgrade the school, but please leave our beautiful neighborhood trees and space alone!

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Cindy Hockett
12 years ago Featured

These are two wonderful schools that use ALL of the fields for activities. In season, it is a rarity to not find ALL the athletic fields in use by our RFES and DMS children.

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Kristy Knuppel
12 years ago Featured

These trees were there for me to play under as a kid and are a big part of the school's beauty for my daughter, who is a current student. I support anything that will preserve them for future generations. I've heard there are alternatives that require only two trees to be removed instead of nine. Has this been considered?

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Kevin Day
12 years ago Featured

I am a registered architect and I believe the improvements planned by BCPS destroy the character of Rodgers Forge and believe a more sensitive plan is able to be produced.

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Kathleen Brenowitz
12 years ago

The green space of the school is half the reason I moved here! It goes, I go.

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Jill Sullivan
12 years ago

Don't do it, especially for buses that will hardly be on the property.

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