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Old 09-23-2014, 01:57 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by bizaro86 View Post
The very best plan here would have been to not rebuild the school and move the kids to the other underutilized schools in the area. Total cost ~0, or maybe the cost of adding a few portables.

But we can't let things like efficiency and logic get in the way of pandering to wealthy neighbourhoods and politics now can we.
Property values in the area would have decreased without the school leading to reduced property tax revenue.

So, no, the total cost would not have been ~$0.

That's not to say that rebuilding wasn't still more expensive (I don't know which would have been more), but this flaw which underpins your sensationalist rhetoric deserves noting.
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