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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Im confused. Does McLean want to become a city just like Fairfax City, City of Falls Church, or just break off their own schools? Because this seems to be to be all about schools vs any other municipal services.

I guess my first question would be why you expect Fairfax County to just give you its school buildings/properties/other municipal buildings if you are going to secede from the county? These properties(Ie the land they are built on) are worth millions! [/quote]

The county has no way to unlock that value without investing many millions more in school facilities elsewhere. That is why such facilities are often ceded to seceding jurisdictions - the county would actually be relieved of the obligations associated with their existing dedicated use.  If you think it would be a bad deal for the county, you are acknowledging the county benefits by treating McLean as a cash cow without providing a reciprocal level of services. [/quote]

Why would Fairfax County give the land away though? Regardless of whats housed there—schools or parks or a warehouse, its land the county owns. Why would it give this land to a seceding jurisdiction? [/quote]

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