I know!! I was thinking that and wondering what his take on the design would be...is it just me, or is it really insanely inconvenient? It's small and cramped, it's not logical at ALL...especially when they have the bike parking done and have to cross the bike path right where all the bikes are JUST crossing the street and need to get clear of the street so the traffic can go...it's like they didn't think about ANY of that when they designed it. Just decided...well...there MIGHT be enough space here to squeeze in a bike parking area. Sure...that will work. I wonder what playground equipment they are even putting in. Supposedly it's been ordered. But where they've built, there is no room for expansion in any direction. The school/community center is attached to the rec center on one side, with the parking lot in front and then a street. On the other side is a busy street and the school is built right along that street with apartments on the other side, so they couldn't go that way if they needed more space. And on the non-rec center side is another building, behind which they are building a basketball court. I'm wondering if they will put pressure on that daycare or whatever it is to close so they have that space for expanding, or for an actual playground. The resource gal was explaining to me where everything was planned to go and she was like "I don't get it...it's not logical, but this is supposed to go here, and then they want to put that there, but yeah, I don't know how that will work." And the worst thing is that these things were all brought up BEFORE they built...the parents asked all these questions and voiced the concerns about the lack of space and how unsafe it is with the busy street, but they ignored everyone because they were determined to merge these 2 schools and build a new building in this spot, so apparently they didn't really care WHAT the problems were, they were never going to listen to what the parents actually wanted. It's so poorly done. The space they have for the playground is about 1/10 the size they had at the old school, and the old school also had a separate playground for the kindergartners that was was 5 times bigger than what they have now. And because it was in the middle of the neighborhood, there were no busy streets around it or anything. There was space to play soccer, basketball, etc...it was really nice!
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) it all in there (although, there's always the choice of the firm to turn down taking on the project...which, of course, can also, many times, be a bad business move... 
