Hi Keith:

Were the Shea Homes project and North Park project being performed by the same developer?

Scott

Keith & Scott:

I remember sitting in an SVUSD meeting on enrollment & projections where staff was planning on using a prospective school in the Alamos Canyon/Unocal project to alleviate some of the overcrowding from Shea/Whiteface/Big Sky. Yes, they were planning on using the "vapor" school to alleviate actual crowding from poor planning.

Must have come as quite a shock then when the City Council turned thumbs down on Unocal, and they sold the land to the company that runs the dump.

It sounds like Moorpark's schools recognized that growth is going to happen, and negotiated a deal in the best interests of its district.

I have good friends in the Sulpher Springs district where they build schools where they are building homes. An ironic concept. I hear they do such a thing in many districts.

Keith - who is the developer of North Park?

Tim

Tim:

Greg Stratton's made some good points on this blog about how different grade levels fluctuate up and down in terms of population. We all know that ADA has dropped for elementary schools while middle school has grown.

How should a school district go about financing school projects when its not going to know the future enrollment forcast?

With the baby boomers retiring, I think there are downward trends in a lot of districts in terms of population. Why would it make sense to build more schools with this data and forcasting model?

Scott

Let me interject some truth here. Shea never offered to build a school for SVUSD,they chose to pay the developer fee, instead. If you have proof otherwise produce it.