FAQs Elementary School Location

• Advantages of the Mega-Block location?

• Flexibility with respect to the High School?

• What are the Pedestrian and traffic implications?

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Density of homes and proximity to 645

apt. units that are less than ½ mile away.

• This elementary will be the most walked to and bicycled to school.

Shorewood

Apar tments 645 (Units)

New

School

MISD owns the property

3Admin. Office PEAK Child / YTN / Pixie Hill High School Pool

Precedence for 3 schools on site

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1978 Photo of the Mega-Block – Facilit ies Educating 2,500 k-12 students

Admin. Office Elementary Junior High High School Pool

Survey results of new school location

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June 2012, EMC polling survey (Question #56)

Proposed Mega-Block layout with new

elementary school

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Allows for a 500 person elementary school, while preserving the ability for MIHS to be rebuiltor renovated if ever necessary.

Elementary school does not compromise

MIHS long-term options

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MIHS campus size is in-line with 3A and

4A KingCo peers

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Traffic and pedestrian impacts of 4th

elementary school located at Mega-Block

• Survey indicates no net change in trip generation between new school and current MISD tenants

• 4th elementary will reduce traffic on ICW, 40th, East Mercer and 53rd

• MISD parking lot entrance/exits will improve traffic flow

• 3 miles of existing separated sidewalks will allow for safer pedestrian/bicycling to school

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No net difference in traffic between

current tenants and new school

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• The District’s commissioned transportation study conducted by Transpo Group and presented in Dec. 2012 cited minimal traffic change.

“The proposed Elementary School Option would provide minimal change to the current existing trip generation”

Reduces traffic on Island Crest

Way, 40th, 53rd and E. Mercer Way.

11Est. Centerof Mass

Elementary School

4th elementary school reduces traffic

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Elementary School

• Walking distance to Shorewood Apts. A 645 unit apartment complex.

• Students located in the yellow area will no longer be transported via car & bus to IP.

• Estimated reduction of 250 vehicle round trops per day on (ICW, EMW, & 53rd)

MISD parking lot entrance/exits will improve

traffic flow

• 4th elementary distribute vehicles on 3 separate streets– Buses access school through existing bus lot on 42nd

– Parking is provided off of 40th.

– Parent pick-up/drop-off is provided on 86th.

• MIHS improved drive through loop– Pick-up/drop-off will be directly accessed via 42nd ,

thereby reducing current queueing on 42nd single access to 2 parking lots and current pick-up/drop-off.

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Density and network of sidewalks

around mega-block

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Miles of sidewalks within ½

mile radius of school. Mega-Block: 3 miles

Island Park: 2.5 miles West Mercer: 1.5 miles

Lakeridge: 1.5 miles

South on 88 th Ave. East on 40 th St.

East on 40 th St. West on 42nd St. 42nd St. cut through Shorewood Apts.

3 miles of sidewalks within ½ mile radius

of new elementary school

15Does not include sidewalks, west of Island Crest Way