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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the concentration of poverty is as dire as you guys make it seem, then you need to start looking for really more creative solutions.  Would having upper and lower schools make a difference?  I honestly don’t know the area well enough, but could you combine the boundary with another school adjacent so that combined the farms rate gets closer to 40%?  
40% is the farms rate for around key (which is where I live), and I personally don’t feel we have a lot of the issues you describe.  Either that or I’m too busy to notice them.[/quote]

The farms rate "around key" is nowhere close to 40%. Keys farms rate is 40% because of Spanish speaking immersion students from buckingham. Redrawing boundaries to alleviate segregation is a non starter because north Arlington is only liberal about abstract issues in national politics. [/quote]
Hate to break it to you but the area around key is 40% farms.  It’s in the location review.  There is Lyon village, but most of the key zone is apartments with significant amounts of affordable housing.  Why do you think people kept bringing up racism when the administration was so adamant about zoning out large chunks of the school— the people being zoned out are all the affordable housing.

The upper and lower elementary is something you guys should seriously consider.  You draw a larger boundary and have k-2 at one campus and 3-5 at the other.  The larger boundary allows for the poverty to be distributed across two schools.   You can have a shared ext day and common bus routes so you minimize the logistical hit.  It’s a way to avoid significant busing.[/quote]

PP here. Mind sharing the link? I lived a block from Key for a few years. Besides Colonial Village I'm having trouble imagining which buildings. Is it just because besides Lyon village the area is childless?[/quote]

I know the Meridian apt had some affordable units, maybe even Odyssey — every apartment has 3-5 affordable units JUST for FARMS families [/quote]

3-5 affordable UNITS - versus 3-5 affordable BUILDINGS in neighborhoods in the south.  THIS is precisely why things are the way they are.  CB allowing a few token units in north arlington developments; but insisting on 30-100% in south arlington developments.[/quote]

Here are the affordable units listed for Rosslyn and Courthouse since we're talking about that area. Your point is valid for north of Lee Highway, but there actually are a number of committed affordable buildings between 66 and Lee Highway, particularly in Rosslyn, Courthouse, and Buckingham on top of the market rate affordable still in the area. This complicates the idea that we can just redraw the boundaries because you have to reach pretty deep into the north to get to the schools with really low FARMs rates. It's not possible to do it without zoning islands or getting people to travel voluntarily for option programs. https://housing.arlingtonva.us/get-help/rental-services/affordable-units/

Rosslyn
Property Name 	Address 	Type 	Phone
Bennett Park (14 units) 	1601 Clarendon Blvd. 	Elevator 	703-243-5041
1800 Oak Apartments (38 units) 	1800 N. Oak Street 	Elevator 	703-527-2006
Key Boulevard Apartments (33 units) 	1537 N. Key Blvd. 	Garden 	703-524-1337
Marbella Apartments (134 units) 	1301 N. Queen Street 	Garden 	703-243-6650
Parc Rosslyn (101 units) 	1531 N. Pierce Street 	Elevator 	703-525-6111
Union on Queen (76 units) 	1515 N. Queen Street 	Elevator 	703-682-7369
Queens Court Apartments (20 units) 	1801 N. Quinn Street 	Garden 	703-888-1142 - this one is being redeveloped into 250 units.
Sedona (55 units) 	1510 Clarendon Blvd. 	Elevator 	703-566-9670

Courthouse
Property Name 	Address 	Type 	Phone
2201 Pershing Apartments (18 units) 	2201 N. Pershing Dr. 	Elevator 	866-768-7218
Colonial Village  (129 units) 	1702 N. Troy St. 	Garden 	703-525-5555
Colonial Village West (70 units) 	2111 N. Key Blvd. 	Garden 	703-524-1337
Courthouse Crossing (112 units) 	1240 N. Rolfe Street 	Garden 	703-528-7200
The Frederick (108 units) 	2230 N. Fairfax Drive 	Elevator 	703-243-0690
The Odyssey (21 units) 	2001 N. 15th Street 	Garden 	703-522-8700
Vista on Courthouse (12 units) 	2200 N. 12th Court 	Elevator 	703-528-1193
Woodbury Park (204 units) 	2335 N. 11th Street 	Garden 	703-528-3625[/quote]

Fun fact: Barcroft APartments has 1300 units. Yes, that one apartment complex contains dozens more units than all of courthouse and Rosslyn combined,  and that is counting 250 units that haven't been built yet. Now imagine a dozen more buildings that are 30-100% affordable and you'll understand why this is a totally intractable, unfixable problem. [/quote]

Barcroft could be a school in and of itself. It's not really divided up well either. The emphasis on walking has played into that. What I would like to see, is a way to provide services to the students that live there, the way that services are provided for those at The Shell or Arlington Mill. I know Barcroft is privately owned, but there must be some way to provide assistance. I'm guessing the issue is funding and where to put something like that.[/quote]

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