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Walkersville Middle recommended as site for new Rock Creek School

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The Frederick News Post reports:

The latest recommendation calls for building the new Rock Creek School on the same grounds as Walkersville Middle School.

The architect of the school, as well as Frederick County Public Schools staff, reviewed seven possible sites for the new Rock Creek School, a school for students from ages 3 to 21 with severe disabilities. The Frederick County Board of Education is scheduled to make a final site selection Wednesday night.

Staff used a cumulative scoring system based on . . . continue reading on The Frederick News Post’s web site.

The proposal at Walkersville Middle School places the school on a property that is served by West Frederick Street and Maryland Avenue in Walkersville. A new development, Mill Run, provides a walking path to the school property.

Some residents have already contacted GladeValley.net to complain about traffic being further impacted by this proposal. The traffic on MD 26 and MD 194 creates major headaches for those coming in and out of town. As a result, residents use Biggs Ford Road and U.S. 15; this path requires merging across multiple lanes of traffic and making a u-turn within roughly 1600 feet. The City of Frederick approved 1,500 homes directly across from Biggs Ford on the Crum Farm. The closure of Monocacy Boulevard in the City of Frederick compounds the issues of traffic.

“We already feel trapped, and they are going to add more school buses and cars to this mess,” one very frustrated reader said on a voicemail left at the offices of GladeValley.net overnight.

The project is not listed on the front page of the school system’s web site, but is up for a vote tonight. Anyone wishing to comment on the project must send an e-mail to boe@fcps.org or be at the meeting and signed up to speak before 6:00 p.m.

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