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[quote=Anonymous]I thought it was also smart and maybe a little encouraging for the County Board to ask what the School Board thought the high school numbers would be at AFTER ten years out.  (Because, presumably, what's the point of building a whole new high school for two years of crazy overcapacity if the numbers will just go down in another few years?)

At the same time, can you really predict that far out in advance?  Like, will Metro even be running in 15 years?  On the other hand, maybe our cars will be driving us automatically in 15 years so we might as well all live out in Bowie, and Arlington won't be at such a premium.

Two other things:

1.  The School Board was really putting out there that the seat shortage could be much worse down the road than they are projecting now -- that in 10 years they may need an additional 10,000 seats instead of 6,000 seats.  That is almost twice as many seats, a huge, huge number that absolutely no one is prepared for.

2.  There were warnings in there that if people in our county started using housing in the same way as other populations do, we will start to see much, much bigger numbers than we are seeing now.  (Were they talking about affordable housing or single family homes?  They were talking about packing lots of people into small spaces.)  They said they weren't seeing that here yet, but that if it started, it would be something that could potentially be a huge problem for both boards in terms of funding.

PP, I think the Education Center is the Syphax Education Center off Washington Blvd in 22204.  http://www.apsva.us/adulted

It's pretty big and almost seems like a college class building, but perhaps there isn't a huge amount of green space around it.  Not sure about the Buck property, or where to find the document you referenced.[/quote]

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