Daily Herald Article about Neighborhood Meeting

PROVO -- Residents of the River Grove and Grandview neighborhoods held a town meeting Monday evening aimed at getting their voices heard about concerns over Freedom Academy's planned expansion. The charter school, which has been in the neighborhood for four years, wants to expand from a K-8 school to a K-12 school starting by adding ninth grade this fall.
The school is proposing a three-phase project that would bring an additional 400 students to the Freedom Academy campus, something residents say shouldn't happen because of traffic and safety concerns.
"The school shouldn't have been allowed on a residential street like 900 North in the first place," resident Aaron Skabelund said. "It would be irresponsible to propose to expand, which will only magnify the problems."
The neighbors' list of problems include traffic congestion before and after school, lack of sidewalks and crosswalks for students to walk to and from school and property damage sustained by neighbors.
Ken Parkinson, chief administrative officer for Freedom Academy, said the expansion has been in the works for more than two years and that the school has and still is looking at expanding at another site.

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