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Bryan, Thank you for your thoughtful and valid points. The urban planning perspective is crucial for a long term school facilities plan and one that the school system and City need to jointly address. I urge you to review the draft Warwick Comprehensive Plan, which as of the last draft I reviewed, failed to adequately incorporate/acknowledge the importance of schools for the future vitality of the City. As a student interested in urban planning, you may be familiar with the state requirements for city planning and the importance given to the schools in most city plans.

As your thoughts further demonstrate, the schools need a long term vision (20-30 years) and an incremental, phased plan to achieve it. A short term, bandaid solution will hopefully not hold up to the public scrutiny warranted for citywide changes that will have longterm consequences. You are absolutely correct in your perception of the condition of Pilgrim and unfortunately, this applies to all the schools in the district, decades of bandaid solutions and lack of annual capital improvement planning has created a dismal situation that needs to be addressed and will take vision and decades of phased, coordinated improvements to do so. I hope many more thoughtful, engaged residents like yourself will provide valuable input and that the school committee will embrace the development of a long term plan and not accept narrowly focused, short-term solutions such as the one described in this article.

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