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Hillview Middle School in Menlo Park is another step closer to a major rebuild of its campus. The Menlo Park City School District’s board signed off on the project’s environmental review at its June 9 meeting.
The vote to adopt the environmental impact report (EIR) was 5-0.
The EIR projects significant increases in traffic and noise, but the negative impacts would be even worse if the project wasn’t built, it says. That’s because enrollment at Hillview, the district’s only middle school, is forecast to increase from the current 670 to more than 970 by 2016, whether or not the campus at the corner of Santa Cruz and Elder avenues is rebuilt.
The project will essentially reverse the locations of the classrooms and playing field; build a new auditorium, administration building, and two-story classroom wings; and reconfigure the entrance.
The tennis courts and Tinker Park playground will be eliminated.