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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t the point of walkability for present purposes not how many kids actually walk, but how many kids are in the walk zone and thus don’t require a bus? I don’t think APS cares if a child takes a helicopter to school, so long as they don’t have to find a driver for another route. [/quote]

That is one thing they are considering, but they are also looking at planning units currently in walk zones that don't actually walk as on the table to be bused elsewhere if that's the most sensible thing to do for boundaries. They've said this many times in meetings and work sessions when they talk about wanting to be mindful of car traffic around schools, and how it's better for traffic overall if you can have one bus going to a school rather than 30 cars.

I think there's a good chance this will be how they'll deal with NA boundaries, where the biggest problem is that Jamestown is under capacity because its locked in by the crowding to the west of Discovery/Nottingham/Tuckahoe (so its boundary can't move west) and the Taylor/Glebe walk zones to the southeast. If Jamestown gives its western bused units to Discovery and takes the eastern portion of the Taylor walkzone (with the justification that too many people over there drive rather than cross Military) to reach to some of the bus zones beyond it, that will free up space in Taylor to take a bunch of the current ASFS zone around Key. It won't make for pretty boundaries, but they'll be contiguous and they'll finally have a prospect of filling Jamestown.[/quote]

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