APS Boundary tool--anyone get it to work yet?

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've seen, there are 1 or 2 people in 1502 losing getting pretty worked up about this. It totally makes sense why APS is considering moving them. It's the only planning unit in the neighborhood not at Yorktown. It's edges are George Mason & Wash. Blvd. It's basically half-way in between YT and WL, so the walkable arguments are nonsense. Then, you've got Glebe folks from the other side of Mason saying their neighbors are being moved, but really, they families are being moved to be with their actual neighbors. It's a weird situation, for sure!

It's not weird. In a densely populated county, there is simply no way to draw boundaries that won't break up some "neighbors." The lines have to go somewhere. You can scream that you're being separated from your neighbors, but if they move the lines over a street or two, now someone else is being separated from their neighbors. It's just the way it is. I live at the very corner of a planning unit, so the neighbors across the street go to a different elementary school and the neighbors on the block behind us go to a third elementary school. ~shrug~

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No, it is weird that the people across a major road are claiming that their neighbors are being moved when, in reality, APS is trying to put an actual neighborhood back together.

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Question: Does anyone care to speculate why ArlNow has been silent on the boundary issue? No articles about Thursday's meeting? about the proposed options?

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Anonymous wrote:Keep hoping pp. so long as your kids are unborn, you can afford that timetable. The rest of us need good schools now. So we have to move, win the lottery or go private.

Well, I don't really have to hope. It's playing out in front of us. Just look at these boundary suggestions. Demographics seem to be taking priority, as they should. But you are correct, I have the luxury of time. My point above has more to do with some people's weird investment in certain zipcodes staying down. Gentrification brings a lot of feelings out of people. Certainly the populations being displaced have a right to have feelings. People who clawed their way out can have a hard time looking back and seeing the improvements they didn't get to enjoy.

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Anonymous wrote:Question: Does anyone care to speculate why ArlNow has been silent on the boundary issue? No articles about Thursday's meeting? about the proposed options?

WEIRD, right? Hmmmm... is it the long arm of the school superintendent affecting free press?

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Anonymous wrote:Question: Does anyone care to speculate why ArlNow has been silent on the boundary issue? No articles about Thursday's meeting? about the proposed options?

WEIRD, right? Hmmmm... is it the long arm of the school superintendent affecting free press?

Nah they just have much more important stuff to report on, like baseball fences in Bluemont.

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I'm in 1502 and while Washington Lee is certainly both walkable and bikeable to us, Yorktown really is not. Something is up with their distance calculators, because it is definitely another half mile at least to Yorktown. Moreover that HUGE hill between us and Yorktown really kills the bikeability.

Uphill! Both ways! J/k, but for our family it really would kill the ease of getting there. We can walk now, and if they add this impediment and at the same time tell us we're still walkable/bikeable when we're really not and they won't bus us either, this move doesn't work for us. I like W-L to start with, so to take that away and the walkability, too, aww, APS, why you gotta hurt me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in 1502 and while Washington Lee is certainly both walkable and bikeable to us, Yorktown really is not. Something is up with their distance calculators, because it is definitely another half mile at least to Yorktown. Moreover that HUGE hill between us and Yorktown really kills the bikeability.

Uphill! Both ways! J/k, but for our family it really would kill the ease of getting there. We can walk now, and if they add this impediment and at the same time tell us we're still walkable/bikeable when we're really not and they won't bus us either, this move doesn't work for us. I like W-L to start with, so to take that away and the walkability, too, aww, APS, why you gotta hurt me?

Where is the hill? Won't you take Harrison almost all the way there? I'm not being snaky, just unable to figure out the geography.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in 1502 and while Washington Lee is certainly both walkable and bikeable to us, Yorktown really is not. Something is up with their distance calculators, because it is definitely another half mile at least to Yorktown. Moreover that HUGE hill between us and Yorktown really kills the bikeability.

Uphill! Both ways! J/k, but for our family it really would kill the ease of getting there. We can walk now, and if they add this impediment and at the same time tell us we're still walkable/bikeable when we're really not and they won't bus us either, this move doesn't work for us. I like W-L to start with, so to take that away and the walkability, too, aww, APS, why you gotta hurt me?

It's off. My house in Lyon Village on walkable map is 0.97 miles. Their app has us listed as 1.7 miles. They want to bus us to Yorktown--while neighbors next to us (directly across the street) and behind us will remain walking to W-L.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in 1502 and while Washington Lee is certainly both walkable and bikeable to us, Yorktown really is not. Something is up with their distance calculators, because it is definitely another half mile at least to Yorktown. Moreover that HUGE hill between us and Yorktown really kills the bikeability.

Uphill! Both ways! J/k, but for our family it really would kill the ease of getting there. We can walk now, and if they add this impediment and at the same time tell us we're still walkable/bikeable when we're really not and they won't bus us either, this move doesn't work for us. I like W-L to start with, so to take that away and the walkability, too, aww, APS, why you gotta hurt me?

It's off. My house in Lyon Village on walkable map is 0.97 miles. Their app has us listed as 1.7 miles. They want to bus us to Yorktown--while neighbors next to us (directly across the street) and behind us will remain walking to W-L.

What PU are you living in? I didn't think any Lyon Village PU's are still included in the four possible options still under consideration.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in 1502 and while Washington Lee is certainly both walkable and bikeable to us, Yorktown really is not. Something is up with their distance calculators, because it is definitely another half mile at least to Yorktown. Moreover that HUGE hill between us and Yorktown really kills the bikeability.

Uphill! Both ways! J/k, but for our family it really would kill the ease of getting there. We can walk now, and if they add this impediment and at the same time tell us we're still walkable/bikeable when we're really not and they won't bus us either, this move doesn't work for us. I like W-L to start with, so to take that away and the walkability, too, aww, APS, why you gotta hurt me?

It's off. My house in Lyon Village on walkable map is 0.97 miles. Their app has us listed as 1.7 miles. They want to bus us to Yorktown--while neighbors next to us (directly across the street) and behind us will remain walking to W-L.

What PU are you living in? I didn't think any Lyon Village PU's are still included in the four possible options still under consideration.

Lyon Village is a state of mind now, not a place.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It's off. My house in Lyon Village on walkable map is 0.97 miles. Their app has us listed as 1.7 miles. They want to bus us to Yorktown--while neighbors next to us (directly across the street) and behind us will remain walking to W-L.

What PU are you living in? I didn't think any Lyon Village PU's are still included in the four possible options still under consideration.

Lyon Village is a state of mind now, not a place.

There used to be someone on the Real Estate forum who would get totally bent out of shape when someone would say that the eastern part of LV was, you know, still LV.

Hope s/he's not seeing this. Or maybe I hope s/he is.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the school board or staff so keen to move unit 1502 from W-L to Yorktown? It's moving in 3 out of 4 of the offered scenarios. It's currently walkable to W-L, and it just had its elementary school moved from Glebe to McKinley during the recent redistricting fiasco. AGAIN? Can't they just leave us alone?

I didn't object to the Glebe/McKinley move and I don't want to be one of those entitled parents who object to everything APS does. But I like W-L and I heard Yorktown has more disposable income and therefore drugs.

Does most of McKinley end up at Yorktown? If so, maybe they are trying to keep the school together?

IIRC, only 2 of the current McK planning units currently go to W-L. Everyone else is currently zoned for Yorktown.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in 1502 and while Washington Lee is certainly both walkable and bikeable to us, Yorktown really is not. Something is up with their distance calculators, because it is definitely another half mile at least to Yorktown. Moreover that HUGE hill between us and Yorktown really kills the bikeability.

Uphill! Both ways! J/k, but for our family it really would kill the ease of getting there. We can walk now, and if they add this impediment and at the same time tell us we're still walkable/bikeable when we're really not and they won't bus us either, this move doesn't work for us. I like W-L to start with, so to take that away and the walkability, too, aww, APS, why you gotta hurt me?

It's off. My house in Lyon Village on walkable map is 0.97 miles. Their app has us listed as 1.7 miles. They want to bus us to Yorktown--while neighbors next to us (directly across the street) and behind us will remain walking to W-L.

First, get over it. That's life. My kid got bused to elementary school, even though the neighbors next to us (directly across the street) walked to another, much closer elementary school. Boundaries have to be drawn somewhere.

Second, WTH is your problem? There are no Lyon Village planning units on the table. Do you just enjoy being dramatic?

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All McK is Swanson. More than half of the school ends up at YT, but certainly more than 2 pus go to WL.