Should FCPS Reassign New Affordable Housing from Marshall to Langley?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

Wtf does this even mean? What demographic is that? And how does it take away from the sense of community?

Low income demographics tend to struggle with parental involvement when the school is further away. Especially when they have to sit in 25 mins of traffic on 123 to get to the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you look on a map, this school is closest to Marshall. Why wouldn't the obvious answer be to expand Marshall? I don't understand why this is a hot button issue at all.

Is Marshall at capacity? If so, why would FCPS spend money on an expansion when there is an undercapacity school (Langley) within reasonable distance? Which school would be bumped down the renovation queue to get Marshall more space?

And let's be honest - Marshall recently had a renovation so is in the back of the line. Plus it has no room to expand but up, and that depends on the strength of the existing foundation.
McLean is in desparate need of a renovation/expansion, and is nowhere near the front of the queue.
But Madison is finishing up its renovation/expansion, and Langley has extra room as well. Seems like there are other options here than just expanding Marshall.

Have you seen what's going on in Vienna? Madison is about to explode.

[Anonymous]

I would love to see the Spring Hill feeder school eliminated where everyone goes to Cooper and Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

Wtf does this even mean? What demographic is that? And how does it take away from the sense of community?

Low income demographics tend to struggle with parental involvement when the school is further away. Especially when they have to sit in 25 mins of traffic on 123 to get to the school.

Umm, I'm fairly confident Route 7 has some traffic (and many lights) as well. As noted above, all 4 HS are 5 miles or less away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

Wtf does this even mean? What demographic is that? And how does it take away from the sense of community?

Low income demographics tend to struggle with parental involvement when the school is further away. Especially when they have to sit in 25 mins of traffic on 123 to get to the school.

Umm, I'm fairly confident Route 7 has some traffic (and many lights) as well. As noted above, all 4 HS are 5 miles or less away.

I live in tysons. Spring Hill to Marshall is a much easier drive than Spring Hill to Madison or Mclean or God forbid, Langley.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you look on a map, this school is closest to Marshall. Why wouldn't the obvious answer be to expand Marshall? I don't understand why this is a hot button issue at all.

Is Marshall at capacity? If so, why would FCPS spend money on an expansion when there is an undercapacity school (Langley) within reasonable distance? Which school would be bumped down the renovation queue to get Marshall more space?

And let's be honest - Marshall recently had a renovation so is in the back of the line. Plus it has no room to expand but up, and that depends on the strength of the existing foundation.
McLean is in desparate need of a renovation/expansion, and is nowhere near the front of the queue.
But Madison is finishing up its renovation/expansion, and Langley has extra room as well. Seems like there are other options here than just expanding Marshall.

Have you seen what's going on in Vienna? Madison is about to explode.

Tear downs to put up 6,000 to 8,000 sq ft homes for families that consist of three people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you look on a map, this school is closest to Marshall. Why wouldn't the obvious answer be to expand Marshall? I don't understand why this is a hot button issue at all.

Is Marshall at capacity? If so, why would FCPS spend money on an expansion when there is an undercapacity school (Langley) within reasonable distance? Which school would be bumped down the renovation queue to get Marshall more space?

And let's be honest - Marshall recently had a renovation so is in the back of the line. Plus it has no room to expand but up, and that depends on the strength of the existing foundation.
McLean is in desparate need of a renovation/expansion, and is nowhere near the front of the queue.
But Madison is finishing up its renovation/expansion, and Langley has extra room as well. Seems like there are other options here than just expanding Marshall.

Have you seen what's going on in Vienna? Madison is about to explode.

Tear downs to put up 6,000 to 8,000 sq ft homes for families that consist of three people?

You haven't been on 123 in a while have you? They aren't building single family homes anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you look on a map, this school is closest to Marshall. Why wouldn't the obvious answer be to expand Marshall? I don't understand why this is a hot button issue at all.

Is Marshall at capacity? If so, why would FCPS spend money on an expansion when there is an undercapacity school (Langley) within reasonable distance? Which school would be bumped down the renovation queue to get Marshall more space?

And let's be honest - Marshall recently had a renovation so is in the back of the line. Plus it has no room to expand but up, and that depends on the strength of the existing foundation.
McLean is in desparate need of a renovation/expansion, and is nowhere near the front of the queue.
But Madison is finishing up its renovation/expansion, and Langley has extra room as well. Seems like there are other options here than just expanding Marshall.

Have you seen what's going on in Vienna? Madison is about to explode.

Tear downs to put up 6,000 to 8,000 sq ft homes for families that consist of three people?

You haven't been on 123 in a while have you? They aren't building single family homes anymore.

At $1 million, this is Vienna's version of affordable housing.

https://patch.com/virginia/vienna/heres-what-1-million-townhouse-looks-vienna

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where in Tyson’s would this be? I don’t see a map. Which ES and MS would it impact?

It is off Spring Hill Road in Vienna and would feed to Westbriar, Kilmer and Marshall unless rezoned. The Langley boundary could be expanded without creating an attendance island to include this area.

Langley has a larger capacity but fewer students than Marshall, and there are already more kids at Kilmer than Cooper. Langley was expanded to almost 2400 seats so it could supposedly accommodate part of Tysons. This is a place to start.

[Anonymous]

This is great news. Every Fairfax County district should take on multiple affordable housing developments. Mount Vernon, Mason, and Lee districts have taken on the brunt of the county's affordable housing for too long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is great news. Every Fairfax County district should take on multiple affordable housing developments. Mount Vernon, Mason, and Lee districts have taken on the brunt of the county's affordable housing for too long.

"Great news" is subjective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you look on a map, this school is closest to Marshall. Why wouldn't the obvious answer be to expand Marshall? I don't understand why this is a hot button issue at all.

It’s not as easy or quick as you suggest to add seats to Marshall, which was just renovated about five years ago. There are other building projects in FCPS now. Reassigning this area to Langley makes sense unless you’re just committed to keeping affordable housing out of that school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is great news. Every Fairfax County district should take on multiple affordable housing developments. Mount Vernon, Mason, and Lee districts have taken on the brunt of the county's affordable housing for too long.

I always feel like the people who say this won’t actually be impacted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is great news. Every Fairfax County district should take on multiple affordable housing developments. Mount Vernon, Mason, and Lee districts have taken on the brunt of the county's affordable housing for too long.

I always feel like the people who say this won’t actually be impacted.

“Impacted” how?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should expand Marshall's capacity. It takes away from the sense of community if you bus kids too far. Especially the demographic that would be in affordable housing.

Wtf does this even mean? What demographic is that? And how does it take away from the sense of community?

Low income demographics tend to struggle with parental involvement when the school is further away. Especially when they have to sit in 25 mins of traffic on 123 to get to the school.

There’s no need to get on 123 from this development to get to Langley. It is right off Spring Hill Road.