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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crown will be a holding school so that everyone can use it for a couple of years. Fair. [/quote]

Seems like the most reasonable path that does the least harm. By 2029, there will likely be a change in administrations and many current limits on growth in MoCo will be gone. New enrollment projections can be done and boundary studies conducted. Wootton remains a top school, Crown is used by the Gaithersburg families to whim it was promised.  Everybody wins and no one is harmed. [/quote]

The current administration isn't the issue. Vacancy rates are still low. There are few opportunities for infill development in that area. The projects that could move forward, like the proposal in Rio, would result in very few additional students. You're only going to get more students if you either 1) increase density through redevelopment, or 2) attract demographic groups that have more kids. Neither is likely in Montgomery County, *especially* that part of Montgomery County.

Kids are expensive. Montgomery County is expensive. Society has changed in ways that are much more hostile to working parents. There are simply going to be fewer kids in places like this.[/quote]

Society isn't hostile to working parents.  You choose an expensive house and lifestyle and blame others.  15 years ago child care was #2500-3000 a month and still is.  [/quote]

Well, we can agree to disagree on that, but the perception of people in the 20s and 30s is very much that society is hostile to working parents. There has been a consistent, long-term trend of falling birth rates among educated adults-- the demographic that would be in a position to buy homes in that part of Montgomery County.[/quote]

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