noticed the temporary classrooms on blocks, anyone know what is going on?

I believe some if not all the portables are being removed- I assume declining enrollment plays into that (Casa is now much larger than PHS). The other work is some reroofing with some new rigid insulation...

Nice to see the infrastructure being improved...

Seems as though PHS isn't impacted any more. This is reason to celebrate.

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Originally posted by howardtheduck:
Seems as though PHS isn't impacted any more. This is reason to celebrate.

Yeah, controlled population, kind of like China. You're right howard, if the west will not grow, it will certainly die. Is this reason to celebrate really Howard?

Yes King, you should stay far far away from the west side of town. We're obviously dying and you don't want to have anything to do with us!

Honestly thought, do you STILL really believe that linear growth is the only way to progress and/or survive?

For some reason it appears that you link the lack of recent expansive development on the west side to a constriction in enrollment. The downed enrollment numbers wouldn't have anything to do with the now deflating real estate bubble, which put west side homes at a premium of hundreds of thousands of dollars to those on the East side. That probably had no bearing on the number of families putting down roots on the west side and therefore the correlating pubic school enrollment numbers... huh?

I guess to that you would say that if there had been new home inventory during the bubble, that the disparity wouldn't have been so great... however I have a sneaking suspicion that it isn't just home inventory levels which keep the west side at a premium to the east... but to that point I digress.

I guess it just wouldn't make any logical sense to point out that PHS and PJHS has some of the largest classes go though it, ever. Obvious we should give no thanks to the numerous PUDs built on the West Side in the early nineties for this fact.

Any action results in an equal and opposite reaction. This is cyclical.

I definitely on weekends do my morning bikerides on the east side of town.

Other fellow people getting exercise on the east side look a lot better and younger. People on the west don't now their age or when not to wear spandex, scarier than halloween sometimes.

Petaluma High has always been a dump anyways. I don't dislike any side of town, It's just easy to see the demograghic difference.

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Originally posted by stv:
I definitely on weekends do my morning bikerides on the east side of town.

Other fellow people getting exercise on the east side look a lot better and younger. People on the west don't now their age or when not to wear spandex, scarier than halloween sometimes.

Petaluma High has always been a dump anyways. I don't dislike any side of town, It's just easy to see the demograghic difference.

LMAO!!!

The wife made me promise not to wear spandex in public but it makes me go so much faster on the dumpy streets of the westside! And I mean, c'mon! Not all of us can afford to live in the pristine prefab comfort of eastside tract home sprawl so give us a break! Not all of can be as fit and beautiful as you model suburbanites, but we try! Now excuse me I'm going to go paint my house the exact same color as everybody else's and put in a third garage for my Escalade, because you know I'm trying to live up to eastside standards.

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Originally posted by Townsville:

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Originally posted by stv:
I definitely on weekends do my morning bikerides on the east side of town.

Other fellow people getting exercise on the east side look a lot better and younger. People on the west don't now their age or when not to wear spandex, scarier than halloween sometimes.

Petaluma High has always been a dump anyways. I don't dislike any side of town, It's just easy to see the demograghic difference.

LMAO!!!

The wife made me promise not to wear spandex in public but it makes me go so much faster on the dumpy streets of the westside! And I mean, c'mon! Not all of us can afford to live in the pristine prefab comfort of eastside tract home sprawl so give us a break! Not all of can be as fit and beautiful as you model suburbanites, but we try! Now excuse me I'm going to go paint my house the exact same color as everybody else's and put in a third garage for my Escalade, because you know I'm trying to live up to eastside standards.

You must know Brian Way.

The westside is sprawl also (incase you did not know)! Just from many different time periods up until the present.

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Originally posted by stv:
You must know Brian Way.

The westside is sprawl also (incase you did not know)! Just from many different time periods up until the present.

No, should I? As I've said before there is certainly sprawl on the far west side (out D and I streets primarily), but the argument that anything outside the Victorian downtown core is sprawl is incorrect. Sprawl took place countrywide after WWII just as it did here - my neighborhood (South City) and the Old East Side are prewar and not housing tract in style or spread, and grew organically rather than through housing tract development. I've mentioned a number of books on the subject before - do I need to list them again? Andreally, are people in better shape on the east side? Are they spandex-ready? LOL.