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For decades, five high schools have
shared the Tak Fudenna Stadium of the Fremont Unified School
District (FUSD). Football games, track meets, graduation
ceremonies and other events make it a center of community
activity. Heavy use wore down the outdated facilities.
Fortunately, when the stadium needed
to be revamped, the public voted for a school bond measure.
Yet, few community members attend bond oversight committee
meetings. How could the community adequately understand
and evaluate proposed construction based on complex civil
engineering plans? Full
story.
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Arriving to pick up their children, parent drivers regularly
clogged the parking lot at Franklin Elementary School in
San Jose. Their cars—and school buses—backed up
in long lines onto the dangerously busy Tully Road. More
students are driven to school at Franklin than any other
school in the district.
Making traffic worse, a valued
new Head Start building added more students to the school.
And bus drivers for the entire Franklin McKinley School
District (FMSD) needed to travel through this traffic jam
to enter the district bus lot behind the school property.
Many feared a child could easily be hit by a car under these
conditions. Full
story.
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In Silicon Valley’s Santa Clara
County, residents rate traffic among their top concerns.
Instead of just listening to employee complaints about congestion
while entering and leaving their parking lot, leadership
at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. decided to take action.
They hired U&R to design and oversee the construction
of Cadence’s new driveway to their headquarters on
Montague Expressway. Full
story.
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Fed up with high school students
parking in the streets in front of their homes, neighbors
were complaining at a televised Fremont City Council meeting.
Nearby Mission San Jose High School's parking lot was full.
Students with cars had no other choice. Then Fremont's mayor
said on television the words that would foretell the solution:
Surely there is an engineer who can make more space available.
Full story.
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and Challenges:
State
of California honored Dorsa Elementary School in San Jose
as a "Distinguished School." Located in the Alum Rock School
District, over 80% of the school's students come from Spanish-speaking
homes. In addition to the outstanding work of the students
and teachers, many attribute the school's success to their
on-site homework center. It enabled students to be tutored
on various subjects in Spanish and English languages. This
contrasts with the English-only classroom instruction required
by the State of California. Full
story.
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