More All-Affordable Housing for Marshall.

[Anonymous]

People don't want property values to go down.

[Anonymous]

With the new boundary changes, Langley will be just over capacity in 2026-2027, McLean will be at capacity, and Marshall with be under capacity.

[Anonymous]

At the same time as they are loading Marshall up with affordable housing on the Vienna side of Spring Hill Road in Tysons, the county just approved a proposal to build 14 new single family homes zoned for Langley on the McLean side of Spring Hill Road in Tysons, rather than the denser townhouses originally proposed at that site.

The rich and their schools get richer and everyone else gets poorer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the same time as they are loading Marshall up with affordable housing on the Vienna side of Spring Hill Road in Tysons, the county just approved a proposal to build 14 new single family homes zoned for Langley on the McLean side of Spring Hill Road in Tysons, rather than the denser townhouses originally proposed at that site.

The rich and their schools get richer and everyone else gets poorer.

Simmer down. These are all government schools.

The actual rich kids are mostly in private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the same time as they are loading Marshall up with affordable housing on the Vienna side of Spring Hill Road in Tysons, the county just approved a proposal to build 14 new single family homes zoned for Langley on the McLean side of Spring Hill Road in Tysons, rather than the denser townhouses originally proposed at that site.

The rich and their schools get richer and everyone else gets poorer.

Simmer down. These are all government schools.

The actual rich kids are mostly in private.

Since they are all just government schools I guess Forestville parents will be fine when some get moved to Herndon in a few years.

[Anonymous]

By affordable housing do they mean the kind that was build near the Wharf in SW DC? $4000+ for a two BR. The revitalization of that area was supposed to include affordable housing. It doesn't.
And also, McLean and Longfellow have been overcrowded for at least 20 years. Why do kids ride the bus right past Langley to the other side of McLean to go to MHS? They were redistricted to McLean in 1984.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By affordable housing do they mean the kind that was build near the Wharf in SW DC? $4000+ for a two BR. The revitalization of that area was supposed to include affordable housing. It doesn't.
And also, McLean and Longfellow have been overcrowded for at least 20 years. Why do kids ride the bus right past Langley to the other side of McLean to go to MHS? They were redistricted to McLean in 1984.

The affordable housing in the two projects (Exchange at Spring Hill and Somos) going up in the Marshall district is 100% income-restricted. Only those with incomes ranging from 30 to 70% of the area median income will be eligible.

Your claims about McLean/Longfellow seem off. McLean has been overcrowded, but not Longfellow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The demographics at Marshall are slowly changing. Move a few high income kids, move a few low income kids in and no one complains. Move a few more, no one complains. Repeat. Then 10 years from now people will be saying how they remember when Marshall was a decent school; and too bad how it has changed. It is an IB school, so I assume FCPS assumes it it is destined for the toilet.

But won’t the ongoing transition of Pimmit Hills from its rough, working class past into a more-or-less posh neighborhood with expensive homes balance all that out demographically?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By affordable housing do they mean the kind that was build near the Wharf in SW DC? $4000+ for a two BR. The revitalization of that area was supposed to include affordable housing. It doesn't.
And also, McLean and Longfellow have been overcrowded for at least 20 years. Why do kids ride the bus right past Langley to the other side of McLean to go to MHS? They were redistricted to McLean in 1984.

The affordable housing in the two projects (Exchange at Spring Hill and Somos) going up in the Marshall district is 100% income-restricted. Only those with incomes ranging from 30 to 70% of the area median income will be eligible.

Your claims about McLean/Longfellow seem off. McLean has been overcrowded, but not Longfellow.

My apologies - Longfellow may not be over capacity now since AAP kids are no longer shipped there instead of Cooper. However, it was over capacity for a number of years. Including the day the renovation was completed which I'm now realizing was about 15 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The demographics at Marshall are slowly changing. Move a few high income kids, move a few low income kids in and no one complains. Move a few more, no one complains. Repeat. Then 10 years from now people will be saying how they remember when Marshall was a decent school; and too bad how it has changed. It is an IB school, so I assume FCPS assumes it it is destined for the toilet.

But won’t the ongoing transition of Pimmit Hills from its rough, working class past into a more-or-less posh neighborhood with expensive homes balance all that out demographically?

It will slightly offset it but not balance out what FCPS and the county are doing to GCM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The demographics at Marshall are slowly changing. Move a few high income kids, move a few low income kids in and no one complains. Move a few more, no one complains. Repeat. Then 10 years from now people will be saying how they remember when Marshall was a decent school; and too bad how it has changed. It is an IB school, so I assume FCPS assumes it it is destined for the toilet.

But won’t the ongoing transition of Pimmit Hills from its rough, working class past into a more-or-less posh neighborhood with expensive homes balance all that out demographically?

It will slightly offset it but not balance out what FCPS and the county are doing to GCM.

That's a shame. The older parents here remember what Marshall was like in the 1990s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The demographics at Marshall are slowly changing. Move a few high income kids, move a few low income kids in and no one complains. Move a few more, no one complains. Repeat. Then 10 years from now people will be saying how they remember when Marshall was a decent school; and too bad how it has changed. It is an IB school, so I assume FCPS assumes it it is destined for the toilet.

But won’t the ongoing transition of Pimmit Hills from its rough, working class past into a more-or-less posh neighborhood with expensive homes balance all that out demographically?

It will not. Those people will send their kids to private school as low-income percentage increases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The largest 100% affordable housing complex being built in the county right now is The Exchange at Spring Hill Station (Westbriar/Kilmer/Marshall), followed by the Indigo at McLean Station (Westgate/Kilmer/Marshall).

The county is budgeting over $45 million to build a new Tysons Community Center that will be situated at the Exchange low-income project. For that amount of money they could have easily expanded Kilmer MS, and not cannibalized the Marshall pyramid.

If you don’t want the affordable housing clustered in one area, then you have to support better public transportation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The largest 100% affordable housing complex being built in the county right now is The Exchange at Spring Hill Station (Westbriar/Kilmer/Marshall), followed by the Indigo at McLean Station (Westgate/Kilmer/Marshall).

The county is budgeting over $45 million to build a new Tysons Community Center that will be situated at the Exchange low-income project. For that amount of money they could have easily expanded Kilmer MS, and not cannibalized the Marshall pyramid.

If you don’t want the affordable housing clustered in one area, then you have to support better public transportation.

No don’t advocate for more public transportation. It will be used an excuse to upzone your neighborhood to super high density development later. It’s a trap.

[Anonymous]

Marshall has never been an affluent zone , it is maybe by accident because of people seeking out close in housing from being priced out of McLean and langley but not be zoning designation. It should go back to its middle to low class income roots.