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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking as a long-time (if 15 years counts as a long time) Falls Church City resident, all the new construction and the traffic and congestion it is causing is horrendous and will NOT be worth it in the end. The West Falls Community was just delayed another year due to financing. I would not be surprised if the other two communities currently under construction (Founders 2 and the supposed Whole Foods) are delayed due to financing issues as well. We're going to be under construction for the next decade. More and more people, especially those with young children, are going to be moving in and I feel like the schools are going to go downhill as a result. We may have just increased capacity, but it won't last forever and then there's nowhere else to put new schools. This is poor city planning at its absolute worst.[/quote] The new HS is big enough for a lot more students. Also, the city acquired the property across from Oak Street Elementary in case they need to expand at the elementary level. I agree the construction is changing the whole atmosphere and dynamic of the city but FCC has survived many changes over the years, there always seems to be enough people who like what FCC has to offer on many fronts to maintain viability. In the 1960s FCC was a dumpy little town with no reputation for good schools, good services, good amenities, etc. and was mostly just a pass through for commuters on their way to and from work. I grew up in Arlington but chose to raise my kids in FCC and when I did my brother told me that FCC used to have the reputation of where you could go to buy drugs or meet biker gangs. Despite this sketchy past school enrollment back then was as high or higher than it is now. Many people think this is the peak but it's not really. Enrollment did drop until it was in the neighborhood of 1200 total in the 80s and has rebounded to 2500 now. City leaders have been trying for some time to take the major tax burden off of the homeowners by expanding the commercial tax base, we'll see if they are successful.[/quote]
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