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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live between Glebe and George Mason - currently zoned for Barcroft. Although I do not have school aged children now, we will in the next few years.

I think the county is forgetting to consider the huge turn around of SFH in that area- and the number of children who will be coming from those neighborhoods in addition to the apartments.  Of our old retired neighbors who have moved out in the past few years - every single one was replaced with a young couple with a baby or is currently pregnant - and no plans of moving.

Although I have noticed a few families moving into the new Glebe townhomes with babies- my husband believes most will move to single family homes before the children are school aged ( similar to what happened in cameron station in alexandria- they built a new ES thinking those homes would need a local school, but most families moved before their kids were that old.)

I agree that most of the high end apartments at Pike 3400 and potentially near food star will be young single/newly married couples without kids in school. [/quote]

Hey neighbor! I'm one of those couples with a baby and we're watching this closely. I doesn't seem that the county is planning ahead. After all, this is the same county that said South Arlington would remain the land of single adults, but there are kids everywhere now.

Also, in another post... [b]" A minority of households in Arlington have kids in the public schools so if parents don't show up and take a seat at the table--including in discussions about things like housing policy or the countywide facilities study--the needs of the kids are going to be drowned out."[/b] Is this really true?[/quote]

The TJ study group--and to be fair, [b]it is county owned land[/b], so they needed to involve county stakeholders and not just school stakeholders--included reps from the Planning Commission, Transportation Commission, Environment and Energy Conservation Commission, Parks and Rec Commission, Sports Commission, Urban Forestry Commission, seven civic associations, the County Fair board, Friends of TJ Park.....and 2 people from the APS Facilities Advisory Council and someone from the TJ PTA. Surprise surprise! This group did not support building a new elementary school![/quote]

Agree with everything you said, PP - just wanted to note how much the bolded above infuriates me (the concept, not your comment).  I don't pay taxes to the School Board, I pay them to the County.  I am tired of hearing about the problems of building on  "County owned land."[/quote]

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