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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's are the first two parts of an informative series of blog posts about schools and growth in Montgomery County.

https://montgomeryplanning.org/blog-design/2019/01/schools-and-growth-part-one-impact-taxes-and-school-construction/ (impact taxes and school construction)

https://montgomeryplanning.org/blog-design/2019/02/schools-and-growth-part-two-student-generation-rates-and-children-who-live-in-apartments/ (student generation and children who live in apartments)

Next: enrollment projections and the relationship between school overcrowding and development

Some key points:

-In Montgomery County, school impact taxes are calculated to cover 120 percent of the cost of each additional seat generated by a new housing unit. In principle, at least, this percentage means that new development pays for more than its share of the capital costs associated with building schools

-Montgomery County has the second highest school impact payment of any jurisdiction in the region

-The courts have ruled that the government can charge developers for infrastructure only to the extent that the fees imposed bear a reasonable relationship to the costs generated by development

-Every other year, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) provides the Planning Department with a dataset that includes the address and grade of every MCPS student (with all other identifying information scrubbed from the dataset). The Planning Department then cross-references this information with parcel data that identifies the type of housing at the relevant address (single-family home, townhouse, high-rise multifamily, etc.).

-Using this information, the Planning Department calculates how many elementary, middle and high school students are generated by different types of housing across different parts of the county. When the rates were last calculated using 2016 enrollment data, housing type information was matched to the addresses of 99.1 percent of the more than 159,000 MCPS students. This means that the resulting generation rates are based on a nearly-complete picture of exactly how many kids live in each category of housing across the entire county.

-Attached single-family housing, commonly referred to as townhomes, generates the most students per unit – more than single-family detached houses.

-Mid-rise multifamily buildings tend to be relatively older stock with a relatively larger proportion of multi-bedroom units, but they still have a smaller number of schoolchildren per unit than single-family dwellings.

-[b]The number of students in high-rise apartments and condominiums, however, is even lower. For every 10 residential units in a high-rise building, only 1.4 students are enrolled in our public schools. [/b]Each of these units gets charged $6,791 in school impact taxes. 
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There is NO way that is true.  Have you seen the hordes of kids getting on the bus near the Twinbrook Metro station where all the new apartments have been built?  Or in Germantown?  Not necessarily high rises in Germantown, but there are lots of kids living in apartments and condos in Montgomery County.  Plus, some residency fraud thrown in there makes it tough to actually estimate how many kids really will come from a new development.  [/quote]

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