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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Gilliam Place was only passed because it was seniors housing. Why are we assuming so many kids?[/quote]

No, silly. The push-back from neighbor's only resulting in the entire building not being family-sized units. Only a small number are age-limited. But, even grandparents can have custody of minor children sometimes. I don't think there will be as many as other CAFs, but there will still be more. That block had no housing, now it will have over 100 units, all of the people in those units are low-income. Just how many kids is still a guessing game. Arlington Mill PU has over 88 ED students. Worth it to note that this was a Safeway and incorporated no housing prior to being built. Buchanan Gardens PU had been mainly 1 bedrooms and had few children. It was renovated to 2 and 3 bedrooms and now has over 90 ED students living in that PU. I don't think it's right that all three CAFs should be zoned to one school, especially when only one of those 3 is in the Barcroft walk zone. Gilliam should go to Fleet and the Henry PUs south of the Pike should go to Drew. [/quote]

Agree with this. It is way past time to confront elected leaders and convince them that they need to coordinate and plan and distribute affordable housing in south Arlington, or get replaced by politicians who will. Yes, there is less market rate affordable housing in arlington than there was in the 1990s, but that trend is separate from our schools, which are more segregated and have a higher percentage of disadvantaged studentd than they did in the 1990s. That is because the people who use affordable housing now are families, whereas before they were working age adults. We simply can't keep building these 200 unit complexes without any foresight or evaluation of the impact on infrastructure, or any discussion at all, simply because AH is a political sacred cow. [/quote]

OP here.  Couldn't agree more.  Now, what can we do to make the new boundaries better across schools?
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Frankly, I think we should implement the discussion map optimized for "demographics". After all, aps staff basically proposed the "efficiency" discussion map without modification. Even with that demographics map, rates would vary from 35 to 64 across the schools. That's a hell of a lot better than 32-92 under the proposal shown Wednesday. [/quote]

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