APS: Four options for Ed Center seats: STEAM, Performing Arts, Early College or IB expansion

[Anonymous]

NP, I totally agree with PP in the brain drain of Wakefield. The idea of moving IB to Wakefield was floated to the SB and declined, too many resources supporting that program at other schools.

And PP is right that it is too late for Wakefield unless major and unpopular changes are made. Last year the SB showed their failure and they will do a repeat of failure with the middle school boundary. I also suspect with the south Arlington elementary boundary as well.

The demographics of south Arlington simply need to change. The county needs to stop subsidizing affordable housing in south Arlington. We need a moratorium.Columbia hills on the west Pike was clandestine..... the Presbyterian church development should not have been approved either. And now more on the eastern Pike, which was starting to change with penrose.

The form based code and Pike neighborhoods plan must be tossed and burned. They were written by mostly the affordable housing developers with one goal in mind, prevent gentrification. Homeowners were told lies -that the goal was mixed income development. None of that has happened. The Pike plan is intended to impose roadblocks to gentrification. Major sections of the Pike need to be redeveloped and turned into higher income properties, like the barcroft apartments. Sell that place and turn it in to anything other than affordable housing!!!! That move alone will change the demographic makeup of Wakefield,Randolph and barcroft alone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP, I totally agree with PP in the brain drain of Wakefield. The idea of moving IB to Wakefield was floated to the SB and declined, too many resources supporting that program at other schools.

And PP is right that it is too late for Wakefield unless major and unpopular changes are made. Last year the SB showed their failure and they will do a repeat of failure with the middle school boundary. I also suspect with the south Arlington elementary boundary as well.

The demographics of south Arlington simply need to change. The county needs to stop subsidizing affordable housing in south Arlington. We need a moratorium.Columbia hills on the west Pike was clandestine..... the Presbyterian church development should not have been approved either. And now more on the eastern Pike, which was starting to change with penrose.

The form based code and Pike neighborhoods plan must be tossed and burned. They were written by mostly the affordable housing developers with one goal in mind, prevent gentrification. Homeowners were told lies -that the goal was mixed income development. None of that has happened. The Pike plan is intended to impose roadblocks to gentrification. Major sections of the Pike need to be redeveloped and turned into higher income properties, like the barcroft apartments. Sell that place and turn it in to anything other than affordable housing!!!! That move alone will change the demographic makeup of Wakefield,Randolph and barcroft alone

I hope you are wrong, but I fear you are right.

What people don’t realize is that they’ve “locked” Barcroft and similar complexes in. While all of the pike plan was happening, they were cutting deals with the owners of those places. The owners have cashed in on the development rights, so those buildings will never be high density and will never be mixed income. Someday they might be sold to make way for high end town homes, but not likely in the next 25 years.