Dublin School Board Selects Promenade for 2nd Comprehensive High School Location
DUBLIN, CA–The Dublin Unified School District moved a step closer to a second comprehensive high school location at last night’s Board of Trustees meeting with the selection of the Promenade location on the east side of Dublin. The 23.4 acre Promenade site, one of eleven sites reviewed by the Community Review Committee, was originally intended to be a retail center tucked inside residential units but was never developed and has been a vacant lot for almost 20 years.
The Dublin Unified School District Board of Trustees voted 4-1 in favor of the Promenade location at last night’s board meeting with Board President Amy Miller along with Trustees Dan Cunningham, Joe Giannini, Megan Rouse voting in favor and Board Vice President Dan Cherrier opposing.
“The selection of the Promenade site moves us one critical step closer to the goal of having a second comprehensive high school in Dublin,” said Dr. Leslie Boozer, Superintendent, Dublin Unified School Districts. “With a specific site in mind, we can focus on acquiring the land and working with an architect to design a new campus. The Promenade site is geared towards an innovative urban high school design and will be unique among DUSD sites. From the ground up, Dublin has the opportunity to build a 21st century high school that will provide its students with incredible opportunities on academic, artistic and athletic levels. This is very exciting.”
According to a presentation by architectural consulting firm Lionakis, which analyzed converting Fallon Middle School into a high school and developing the Promenade location, both locations would support a school with up to 2,500 students, with the Promenade location providing more capacity for parking and two access roads (vs. only one at the Fallon location). Lionakis estimates a 49-month build schedule (assuming an initial phase supporting 1,000 students), including site acquisition / entitlements, design, DSA / bid and construction. Based on that estimate the earliest opening data would be the 2022-23 school year.
Dublin Second Comprehensive High School Conceptual Site Plan (Promenade location)
As per the agenda item,
“The district has a future need for another high school, and the community voted in support of Measure H to start the initial phases for a new high school. The Board of Trustees have identified funds from Measure H for the first phase of construction and the purchase of land. Various options are being considered for the new high school as presented by staff and confirmed by the Community Review Committee (CRC), who presented their findings in February 2018 to the Board of Trustees.”
Materials provided with the agenda item included the timeline of the selection process and steps taken, a review of the CRC’s recommendations and discuss the five recommended sites, a presentation regarding converting Fallon Middle School into a future high school and the Board’s preferred future school site the Promenade.
District staff engaged Lionakis architects to perform an analysis to convert Fallon Middle School into a potential high school, as well as the future development of the Promenade site for a high school.
- Community Review Committee: Future High School Preferred Site Options (and final report) – February 6, 2018
- Lionakis – Dublin Unified School District Future High School Site Selection Analysis – June 12, 2018
- Dublin Unified School District staff – Future High School Selection – June 12, 2018
The DUSD presentation includes summary information on additional sites considered, including the large DiManto properties along Tassajara Boulevard. DUSD notes that DiManto is an “unwilling seller – eminent domain action required, with
severance damages possible and longer timeline”. Regarding the Fallon Sports Park the DUSD presentation notes: “[City of Dublin] has indicated during staff and board committee meetings that they are not interested in joint use unless same size park of 60 acres can be purchased within City boundaries for land swap and full reimbursement for improvements in land are made to City”.
Based on the CRC and Lionakis analysis the Dublin Unified School District recommended selection of the Promenade location.
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Omg, the noise and traffic behind my HOA….. do NOT want a HS football field right next to my home. Disgusted with this plan. Build on FSP instead and please leave us in peace.
Pleased finally moving forward but the time frame seems very long, earliest opening 22-23 school year seems unacceptable, need to push for its completion much faster
I agree. DUSD does things terribly slow.
To anyone upset about the high school being next to your home, think about how the last proposition was next to the jail. think about the safety of the students. Sorry, but Dublin is growing, and between Ikea and the need for new schools and shopping, everything near Dublin Blvd is going to get noisier.
They can go right back to the jail site. Vote to relocated the jail to Tracy if you’re concerned about it. Fallon Sports Park site wouldn’t mean obnoxiously bright net-new stadium lighting (which FSP already has some of) in the area at the giant HS football field with annoying whistles blowing, marching bands literally right next to us. Not to mention the foot traffic and potential increase of stolen Amazon packages in the immediate neighborhood. I used to live directly behind a school, it is not pleasant. At this point, I’d just rather it be the senior housing plan if this is the alternative. They literally picked the one site hardly anyone wants them to use.
Ikea is not a good example, it’s in a good commercial zone, where it belongs. You say Dublin is getting increased shopping? Not if they keep building high schools and football fields where main street Promenades are supposed to go.
Nothing really wrong with the jail site honestly, it could serve as a constant reminder to the kids to stay in school every time they look at the window. XD
When homeowners purchased the adajcent homes they were promised a shopping center promenade. They’ve been cheated out of that and will instead get a high school with noise being amplified even more because of the narrow structures on all sides. Just because it isn’t next to a jail doesn’t mean it’s a good choice.
It appears the building of homes and retail space is a priority, and land left over, unwanted, and much too small for anything else, will be the new high school.
The housing next to the area selected was not designed around supporting a high school. Noise carries further within high-density housing. The traffic will also pose significant problems for any current residents trying to exit the communal garages. This is a terrible, short-sighted idea. The City of Dublin doesn’t care about the residents of the Terraces or the adjacent commmunities, they’re just trying dodge the problem of finding an appropriate land site by squeezing it in anywhere.