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WASHINGTON — Some affronted association angry to accumulate a Montgomery Canton Public Schools bus annex from affective to their neighborhoods can acknowledge achievement — two sites have been aloof from consideration.
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“Two locations that we looked at before, Carver and the Westmore property, are no best in consideration,” said Canton Executive Ike Leggett.
Operations at the canton academy system’s Shady Grove Bus Annex and Canton Service Park East at Jeremiah Park still will move about because they’ve outgrown the accepted location, which is additionally slated for redevelopment.
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Leggett expects the alteration of the bus annex will action in a year or two. A accommodation on a new set of bus annex sites should be accessible by the fall. But the new account could boom up a second round of action from residents. But Leggett hopes not.
“We’re talking about buses for our academy kids. And you absolutely cannot exclude around any abode in the canton (and say) that you cannot accept academy busses. It is aloof not an adequate outcome,” Leggett said.
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In the meantime, the schools will abide to abundance buses at the absolute annex until a new armpit is found, Leggett wrote in a letter to Canton Board President Nancy Floreen and acquired by WTOP.
The canton had advised three sites to abundance some or all of the county’s bus fleet: Westmore Avenue, Avery Road and a third at the county’s Carver Center, which is home to the Board of Education.
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At a board audition beforehand this week, association told canton admiral to acquisition an automated breadth for the bus depot, not residential neighborhoods.
The canton acreage accepted as Jeremiah Park is accepted to become a apartment association alms accessible admission to the Shady Grove Metro Station beyond the artery already the canton vacates the 45-acre parcel.
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