Chris De Benedetti reports that Keith Wolff and A's consultant Jim Cunneen will present their plan at a FUSD board meeting tonight. FUSD has been keenly aware that there's no elementary school at Pacific Commons and at the very least one would be required there for the projected 700 grade school students. Some accommodations would have to be made for a large number of secondary school students as well.
New to the plan is the concept of placing the school on the city's 40-acre parcel, where a train station and park are planned. It seems like a reasonable use for the property, but there's one issue: the school would be separated from the neighborhood by at least the 0.6 miles I cited earlier. The school would be far more attractive if it were well integrated into the neighborhood, but using city land would be a much cheaper alternative. FWIW I'd rather see a land swap between the two parties to make the school work within the neighborhood confines - important since the residential area will be a gated/limited access area.
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one thing I've thought about was the possibility of making a private school there.
I don't think they should build elementary school on city's 40-acre parcel, where a train station and park are planned.
I would rather they should build in the residential area.They should build closer neighborhood, but using city land would be too small and its far from the Proposed Ballpark Village.
They should just planned train station and park rather than build elementary school.
Its 6:30 P.M. Its start soon live webcast. It 6:50 and haven't start yet.
http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/distcommunity/Webcast.htm
I find it interesting that the A's hired Jim Cunneen as a consultant; former head of the SJ Chamber of Commerce, former Cisco executive, and former member of Baseball San Jose. Hmmm....
If this was a year ago, the name Jim Cunneen might've raised one of my eyebrows. These days it's more along the lines of hiring people you know that have a good track record. There are bound to be more such instances as the project moves forward.
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