How dare Hamilton County Board of Education members become proactive about growth.
That seems to be the opinion of some pro-county growth proponents, who are shocked at the board’s temerity of creating a policy that would consider potential zoning changes when a school reached certain levels of capacity.
In December, the school board adopted a new growth, capacity and enrollment management policy that should make the school district and school board members players in future county growth and development.
In truth, they should have been involved long before this, but they’ve always been on the tail end — growth happens, and the school district must adjust to it. If they’re involved on the front end, with developers and county commissioners, who must allocate money for new schools or additions, decisions can be made on what new development would do to the capacity at related schools and whether the development is important enough for commissioners to consider a new school or addition, or whether the school zone should be changed to better utilize capacity at another school.