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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi everyone,

Writing here because I’d like everyone’s thoughts. I’ve seen a lot of fear-mongering about Fields Road recently, with people suggesting it’s going to bring down the quality of Wootton @ Crown.

I’m writing here now with somewhat of the opposite concern: my worry is that following the next Elementary School study Fields Road could become essentially gentrified and sections of it that are currently less affluent could be reassigned to Summit Hall or another Gaithersburg High ES feeder.

Here’s my reasoning:

Fields Road is already over-crowded, but once Downtown Crown is removed from the Rosemont island, part of it will likely have to move into Fields Road. If that’s the case, they might have to move out the families that live north of Fields Road ES along Muddy Branch Road to make room for newcomers. This is even more likely to be the case if they decide to close to DuFief, as that will require redistricting of DuFief’s current area to a split between Stone Mill, Rachel Carson, and Travilah, which would take up any available space to move Downtown Crown people to Stone Mill as opposed to Fields Road.  Lakewood will also not have room if they’re taking on people from Fallsgrove as many think will be the case.

Additional to this is that removing Downtown Crown from Rosemont is going to put pressure to increase the cachement area of Gaithersburg HS elementary schools to keep them open.

And I know some believe some new elementary school is about to be built on Key West Ave but that’s not in the CIP right now so don’t think that’s an out here.

My concern about this has increased seeing how casual and confident MCPS was in screwing over Brown Station last minute. They’re currently acting like Wootton @ Crown is some redistribution - esque event, but with this next study I wonder if they’re just going to essentially find the way of making it revert to being pretty much demographically analogous to how Wootton is now. [/quote]

It’s also been interesting to me to see that, for all the talk of Wootton housing values dropping, there hasn’t been nearly as much around FRES housing prices rising. Curious to what extent FRES neighborhoods include subsidized housing where there might be some stability and to what extent it might also be gentrifying the old fashioned way, not from boundary reassessments (or at least not solely - I hear you on Brown Station) but from lower income families getting priced out. [/quote]

It's a great question and I think the concern there is real.  I do believe there are a good deal of renting families on the north end of the FRES district, so that could absolutely become a problem if landlords begin responding to that.  Washingtonian Woods is almost sure to become a great deal pricier with this change. [/quote]

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