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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re talking about the projections the County makes before the apartments/condos are built.

The argument made is that the apartments/condos will not be inhabited by families and kids.  It will be mostly DINKs or elderly people.  So the developers are not held accountable for building the corresponding schools.  [/quote]

Right. The county explicitly takes into account the actual addresses given by actual students in MCPS. See here, for example:

http://montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621AnnualSchoolTestPBPres.pdf

And as far as I know, nobody in the county says that apartments/condos are not inhabited by families and kids. If you have heard somebody say otherwise, please tell us who, where, and when.

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yes they know children live in apartments and condos..[b]but the number expected is less than it would be for a SFH[/b].  I have seem the numbers but not recently.  MCPS is known for under estimating the number of kids in multi-family dwellings though.[/quote]

Consider the possibility that this is because it actually is less.

The current county, county-wide student generation rates for K-12 are:

single-family detached: 0.465 (1,000 single-family detached houses generate 465 K-12 students)
single-family attached: 0.491 (1,000 single-family attached houses generate 491 K-12 students)
multi-family low/medium-rise: 0.408 (1,000 apartments/condos in low/medium-rise buildings generate 408 K-12 students)
multi-family high-rise: 0.139 (1,000 apartments/condos in high-rise buildings generate 139 K-12 students)

http://montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20180621AnnualSchoolTestPBPres.pdf

The City of Rockville may have its own generation rates; I don't know.[/quote]

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