El Reno

[ljbab728]

El Reno should use a new high school to help revitalize their downtown instead of creating more rural sprawl. Build the high school as close to the center of town as they can. Heck, they could even build a downtown athletic complex for football, basketball, and baseball. They could turn downtown into something that can compete with Wal-Mart.

Rural sprawl in El Reno. LOL. You're kidding, right? You do realize that the area they were talking about was only about one mile from downtown? El Reno has a very nice downtown already and you want them to have to level a large area there for athletic complexes? I'm not necessarily against a central high school location but usng a high school to compete with Walmart? Really? Kerry, sometimes you are really reaching in trying to make your points.

[SoonerBoy18]

I'm in El Reno frequently. I can hardly believe that highschool building, as old as it is, is anywhere near adequate. That said, it is certainly a central location. The new proposed location is on the eastern edge of town. Isn't there quite a bit of vacant land by the existing school complex? Maybe where a school used to stand? Right there by that old WPA pedestrian underpass? How big a campus were they planning on building?

It wasnt going to be a huge campus like how Yukon did theirs. The city said it was going to be a one story building. I'm not exactly sure how big it really was going to be.

[SoonerBoy18]

This wasnt one of those things like "Ok we are going to luxury here, so lets buy every one cadillacs...well we lost the funds to do that so we can only afford to by them honda's or something." -- No. the problem is still there. Hillcrest Elementary is still over copacity and is in need for an expansion and Lincoln Elementary is deteriorating badly. The city needs to go back to the drawing board because the problem is still there.

[onthestrip]

It was a good decision by the voters. A school zone on the busiest street in El Reno? Kids crossing that street during the busiest parts of the day? Should not be allowed to happen.

El Reno does need new schools. But just no this plan.

That's terrible reasoning. There is a empty field accross the street, no kids would be crossing the road. And at most there's would be 200 hundred cars at the high school. Redlands CC could add that many and no one would notice. And beside, having a 25mph school zone for a couple hundred of yards is not the end of the world, you will get to wal mart and fast food row soon enough. It's really sad how few citizens realize that a towns school system is the backbone of the town. The current high school is over 100 years old. Yes, 100. It's time to build a new high school.

[rickself]

Downtown could never work. It would seem that placement at Country Club and Sunset/Rte 66, with close proxiity to the new state-of-the-art Jenks Simmons Fieldhouse, Memorial Stadium, and the Reed Baseball Complex would be a no-brainer. There is plenty of land around there. It's only a mile or so north of the Redlands campus. Gotta wonder why nobody thought of that area?