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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope Arlington County is paying close attention to this. If Jamestown/Nottingham/Tuckahoe become a choice school, [b]neighborhood house values will go down[/b]. On the plus side, the insane real estate taxes should also be reflective of the reduced home values.

No way will I continue to pay the r/e taxes I'm currently paying if 22 buses are coming up and down our streets everyday. This decision will be very costly to the County.  [/quote]
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No, they won't, hysterical cow. [/b]
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Agreed but talk to the ASFS parents who are worried about their home values if a S. Arlington school comes to Key. They claim their community will be divided if they all have to go to a new neighborhood school at Key so they need APS to move ASFS over to the Key building to keep the community together—which makes no sense because if they are all moving to a “new” Key neighborhood school, their community should stay intact, albeit at a new location.

Apparently, though, it’s too distressing for them to lose their science program so they want the taxpayers to pay to move ASFS to Key for them.  Whatever new school that would come to Key is apparently not good enough.  Will be interesting to see if APS and the SB cave to their demands, especially after Murphy’s email about being equitable and transparent.  Not sure how moving one neighborhood school to another neighborhood school to appease a small set of homeowners is a smart use of APS funds. 
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Can we agree that neither a change in Key to neighborhood nor a change in MckinTuckNottDiscov to option will decrease property values? The premise is ridiculous. [/quote]

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Although I don't agree with the tone of the PP here, I do believe property values will have a negative effect. People will pay a premium to "walk" to their neighborhood school.[/quote]

I agree as well. But it will be impossible to know the impact for sure. I don’t think their property values will decrease but they may not increase at the rate they would have had their walkable school remained a neighborhood school. Should APS really care about property values?  Not really it’s job.  Should the CB care?  They should care that all of the overcrowding, lack of funds to build schools and the SB who can’t seem to make a plan will lead to a lower percentpion of APS schools. If that happens, all residential property values could take a hit. Again, not a real dollar hit per se. But a dampening of price increases. [/quote]

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