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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, I am new to this discussion. Looking at the new Fleet, the planning units under review - several of them are in north arlington, like way into barrett and long branch! This makes it seem like the boundaries have already been drawn for that school? What the heck?[/quote]

The boundaries have NOT been drawn.  This current exercise is simply to look at what is realistically walkable to each school location because 1) we need to minimize bus costs and 2) past boundary changes have shown APS that the thing parents scream about the most is keeping their kids at walkable schools and 3) they want to consider locations for choice schools and would not put one in an area where you could have a highly-walkable neighborhood school (because #1 and #2).  A number of planning units will be walkable to more than one school so then they'll need to decide what makes sense for each school.

Proximity is not the only thing that will be considered but, given past boundary discussions, they want to resolve that part first, by end of this school year, I believe.  Then, once the real walk zones are firm they will play around with the remaining zones based on the other boundary criteria.  That part will be tackled in the Fall.[/quote]

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