{"id":1742,"date":"2009-02-16T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2017-03-02T22:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:24:40","slug":"when-dixon-built-real-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"When Dixon built real high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book has come to our attention that describes how to build the best possible schools. It is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=EhBaVDd3FRQC&#038;pg=PA126&#038;lpg=PA126&#038;dq=keith+dixon+%2Bfort+collins,+co&#038;source=web&#038;ots=SsC4pTHRLA&#038;sig=2s0MUf1y9nlwwqpo98R8cl3l0Xo&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=ASWXSdfyE4TSMc_1tYQM&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;resnum=3&#038;ct=result#PPP1,M1\">Planning and Designing Schools<\/a><\/strong>, by the late <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/libraries\/research\/specialcollections\/oralhistories\/brubaker.html\">C. William Brubaker <\/a>of the Perkins and Will Architectural firm. Dr. Dixon is mentioned for supervising the construction of Ft. Collins High School which it seems Brubaker had a hand in. Here&#8217;s how the school looks in Google Earth.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/images\/FtCollinsSm.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/images\/FtCollinsSm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Compare this to the latest plans for Ordean High. <strong>(NOTE: this Ordean image is a hair larger than it should be for the comparison.)<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/images\/OrdeanHigh.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.letduluthvote.com\/images\/OrdeanHigh.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What does this expert who cites the Fort Collin&#8217;s site tell us about the history of high school sites? In the 1920&#8217;s high school sites were 20 acres, after World War II sites were 40 acres.  In the 1970&#8217;s sites increased to 50 acres in suburban and rural areas, and now sites are 60 to 80 acres.  <\/p>\n<p>Ordean&#8217;s usable space without variances which will put students at risk is only 10.8 acres <em><strong>half of what was expected in the 1920&#8217;s. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who doubts that a new school board will have to use eminent domain to take additional property is as unquestioning as the current school board. But don&#8217;t worry. <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1740\">Everything this Board does is legal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book has come to our attention that describes how to build the best possible schools. It is Planning and Designing Schools, by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20821,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/20821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}