Schools going green big-time
St. Mary's claims lead in environmental design race
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In a nod to the state's Smart Growth policies, the school was built in one of the county's designated growth areas, a planned community called Wildewood carved out of the woods north of Lexington Park and the booming Patuxent Naval Air Station. But in a planning breakdown that's all too typical in sitting new schools in the suburbs, there's no sidewalk along the parkway that connects the school to the neighboring houses - though there are marked bicycle lanes.
That's about the only glitch in the green-ness of Evergreen, but it doesn't seem to faze the students, faculty or staff.
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